Able Quote by Werner Herzog

“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most…

— Robert Hughes

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

— Rumi

“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

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...

— Fred Hoyle

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

— Douglas McCulloh

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too…

— Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“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

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to…

— Nick Brandt

If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

— David Hockney

Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long…

— Robert Adams

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

— Ansel Adams