A picture is a poem without words. [ Horace ]

He feeds his soul on the unreal picture. [ Virgil ]

This picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. [ Horace ]

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. [ Hazlitt ]

Reputation serves to virtue, as light does to a picture. [ Proverb ]

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture. [ Simonides ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. [ Bacon ]

A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing. [ Coleridge ]

She has less beauty than her picture hath, and truly not much more wit. [ Proverb ]

Dreams cannot picture a world so fair; sorrow and death may not enter there. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

A person that is beautiful and vicious, is a fine picture set in a scurvy frame. [ Proverb ]

Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures: the sense informs the soul. [ Sydney Smith ]

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and don't daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. [ Emerson ]

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]

Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty. [ Sydney Smith ]

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Eloquence is the painting of thought; and thus, those who, after having painted it, still add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait. [ Pascal ]

Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. [ South ]

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, - they make their mark. [ Joubert ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture. [ Plutarch ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]