Becoming Quote by Jean Baudrillard

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything…

— Roland Barthes

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to…

— Terence McKenna

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

— Geri Halliwell

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the…

— Plotinus

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

— Don DeLillo

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations…

— Barry Jenkins

“...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

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

— Jeff Wall

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

— Elvis Presley