Debate Quote by David Hockney

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

— Claude Lanzmann

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph…

— Nate Lowman

Images contaminate us like viruses.

— Paul Virilio

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

— Annie Leibovitz

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

— Trevor Paglen

We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

— Ian Hacking

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond…

— Jean Baudrillard

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett

“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would…

— Ethan Chatagnier

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

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart