Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

— Djuna Barnes

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are…

— Tee Corinne

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

— Trevor Paglen

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it…

— Mark Ryden

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

— Erica Jong

“Imagination demands an image.”

— G.K. Chesterton