#Pictures

"If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words."

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

"If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken and available audibly for all the readers to hear as they watch."

"With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own."

"I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot."

"Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told."

"When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not."

"I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?"

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."