"Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't……" — Susan Sontag

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of… — Gaston Bachelard
• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty… — Ansel Adams
• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
• I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. — Lynda Barry
• My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their… — Rob Bell
• And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
• Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most… — Bjork
• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of… — David Bohm
• When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so… — Niels Bohr
• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin

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