Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Invisible Copy Share Image
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug. — Trevor Paglen Argue Copy Share Image
I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything. — Trevor Paglen Everything Copy Share Image
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Automation Copy Share Image
We humans have always looked to the sky as a sounding board for asking big questions about ourselves: Who are we? Where… — Trevor Paglen Always Copy Share Image
When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves? — Trevor Paglen Alien Copy Share Image
I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply… — Trevor Paglen Answering Copy Share Image
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then… — Trevor Paglen Dinosaurs Copy Share Image
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the… — Trevor Paglen Laws of physics Copy Share Image
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road… — Trevor Paglen Another time Copy Share Image
The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition,… — Trevor Paglen Humanity Copy Share Image
'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've… — Trevor Paglen Change Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen Communication Copy Share Image
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge,… — Trevor Paglen Body Copy Share Image
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make… — Trevor Paglen Attention Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of… — Trevor Paglen Human Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Coercion Copy Share Image
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity… — Trevor Paglen Becoming Copy Share Image
We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up… — Trevor Paglen Earth Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and… — Trevor Paglen Bad Copy Share Image
The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites. — Trevor Paglen Dragon Copy Share Image
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind… — Trevor Paglen Famous Copy Share Image
How has the sky been transformed by drones? How has the ocean been transformed by the fact that over 90% of the… — Trevor Paglen Drones Copy Share Image
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world. — Trevor Paglen Logic Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went… — Trevor Paglen Education Copy Share Image
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic. — Trevor Paglen About Copy Share Image
If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure. — Trevor Paglen America Copy Share Image
“The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American… — Trevor Paglen American economy Copy Share Image
On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I… — Trevor Paglen Gesture Copy Share Image
I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes… — Trevor Paglen Astronomy Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Architecture Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Flexing Copy Share Image
The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as… — Trevor Paglen Existence Copy Share Image
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to… — Trevor Paglen Anything Copy Share Image
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Civilization Copy Share Image
Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it… — Trevor Paglen Person Copy Share Image
