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> [“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible. However, as soon as this happens, images come between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/images-are-mediations-between-the-world-and-human-beings-human-beings/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

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## More by Vilém Flusser

> [Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/both-those-taking-snaps-and-documentary-photographers-have-not/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/custom-is-a-shroud-that-conceals-everything-not-without-first/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/there-is-no-everyday-activity-which-does-not-aspire-to-be/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/changing-the-question-free-from-what-into-free-for-what-this-change/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/all-incoming-bits-of-information-have-simultaneously-a-tentacular/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/photographers-it-is-true-do-not-work-but-they-do-do-something-they/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/the-act-of-photography-is-like-going-on-a-hunt-in-which-photographer/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/he-who-writes-must-master-the-rules-of-grammar-he-who-shoots/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/photographers-encode-their-concepts-as-photographic-images-so-as-to/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/images-are-mediations-between-the-world-and-human-beings-human-beings/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/with-every-informative-photograph-the-photographic-program-becomes/)

[Vilem Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/the-task-of-a-philosophy-of-photography-is-to-reflect-upon-this/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

> [“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vil-m-flusser/our-thoughts-feelings-desires-and-actions-are-being-robotized-life-is/)

[Vilém Flusser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vil-m-flusser/)

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