Admiring Quote by Dave Hickey

“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…

— Thomas Bernhard

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they…

— Oscar Wilde

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

“Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.”

— Steve Corbett

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light,…

— Damien Hirst

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…

— Duane Michals

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want…

— Virginia Postrel

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

— Trevor Paglen