Change Quote by Alix Smith

I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.

— Mickalene Thomas

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

— Alice McCall

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

— David Doubilet

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change…

— Jamel Shabazz

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

— Bell Hooks

For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

— Kim Shattuck

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more…

— Galen Rowell

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it,…

— Christian Boltanski

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

— Robert Barry

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen