Imagination Quote by Claude Lanzmann

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

— Alfredo Jaar

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

Photos are just electronic reproductions of the past. I see nothing valuable in photos. Burning photos seems like an option, since we've this perception…

— Jeremy Limn

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

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we…

— Wim Wenders

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

— Janet Varney

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

— Eddie Adams

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which…

— Susan Sontag