Famous quotes containing the word pictures:
“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“These pictures of time;
They fade in the light of
Their meaning sublime.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“As for pictures and museums, that dont trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that youve always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.”
—Margaret Oliphant (18281897)
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