Audience Quote by Signe Baumane

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

— Peter Greenaway

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture…

— Marjane Satrapi

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things…

— Bob Edwards

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that…

— Clint Eastwood

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

— Jean Baudrillard

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct,…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing,…

— David LaChapelle

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest…

— Jasper Johns

I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience…

— Vincente Minnelli

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work…

— Michael Craig-Martin