Flats Quote by Barbara Kruger

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Trevor Paglen

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

— Trevor Paglen

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

In my work, there's mechanism that is "real," which is formed from the historical concepts of the images that I'm working with. That doesn't…

— Lorna Simpson

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris