Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also."
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Best Picture
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ansel Adams
Photographer
"The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture."
Lincoln Steffens
Journalist
"The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered."
Joyce Tenneson
Photographer
"Our best pictures happen by grace."
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