Reading and writing Quote by John Humphrys

“The pictures are bound to mutilate the words. Those words weren't meant to have pictures with them!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Making the pictures ridiculous is what enables you to really see them; a logical picture is usually too vague.”

— Harry Lorayne

...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

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.”

— William Moulton Marston

“... but it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and…

— Dodie Smith

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

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

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of…

— Walker Evans

The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests…

— Edmundo Desnoes

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

— Trevor Paglen