Crowds Quote by Gustave Le Bon

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd…

— Gustave Le Bon

The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The core idea behind the wisdom of crowds effect is that diverse knowledge and expertise is being collected and aggregated. Essentially, it argues that…

— Rich Jolly

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

— Ivor Novello

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

— Ben Shahn

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to…

— Max Beerbohm

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using…

— Robert Heinecken

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology…

— Gustave Le Bon

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

— Anonymous

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

— Dario Fo

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart