Picture
The art of painting; representation by painting.
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
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Picture Quotations
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
Ronald Reagan
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John Lennon
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt Disney
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Picture Translations
picture in Afrikaans is beeld, skildery
picture in Danish is figur, billede
picture in Dutch is beeld, prent, afbeelding, plaat
picture in Finnish is kuva
picture in French is figure, image
picture in Italian is dipinto, accettazione
picture in Norwegian is bilde, maleri
picture in Portuguese is retrato, quadro
picture in Spanish is grabado, ingreso, imagen
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