Aid Quote by Bruce Jackson

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the…

— Billy Tauzin

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

— Charles Moore

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was…

— Sophie Ristelhueber

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

— Trevor Paglen

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

— Bill Vaughan

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

— Jean-Luc Godard

If the picture hadn't been taken, people wouldn't know what happened in the war.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up in the…

— John R. Bradley

It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people…

— Amartya Sen

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag