A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
– Diane Arbus
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- A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture. – Anonymous
- A picture is just a picture, but add music and there’s emotion. There’s a story. – LH Cosway
- The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same. – Adhish Mazumder
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- Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do. – Ziad K Abdelnour
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- A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone’s voice. – Paul Fleischman
- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
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- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
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- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
- The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
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- The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow. – Seth Godin
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- A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. – Robert Henri
- If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less’n he wants to lose it! – Eugene ONeill
- The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power. – Saminu Kanti
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- The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret. – Criss Jami
- There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord. – Kevin Thoman
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- He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. – Ray Bradbury