Definition of Picture

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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

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John Lennon

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

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt Disney

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol

The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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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