Art Quote by Sherrie Levine

“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images…

— Vilém Flusser

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman…

— Elie Wiesel

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature,…

— Anonymous

“When a man invents an image that he wants to propagate, that he may even want to substitute for himself, he starts by experimenting,…

— Jean Genet

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality…

— Siegfried Kracauer

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

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Elvis Presley

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles…

— Roy H. Williams

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image…

— D. H. Lawrence

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing…

— Gaston Bachelard

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the…

— John Crowe Ransom