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The Power of Words on the Power of Images

"There is no representation without intention and interpretation."

-- David Olson

"In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world, we pick out what our culture has already defined for us."

-- Walter Lippmann

"Individuals 'see' chairs when they enter a room because of the recurrent need to sit."

-- Harvey Molotch & Marilyn Lester

"To gaze implies more than to look at - it signifies a psychological relationship of power, in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze."

-- Jonathan E Schroeder

"The camera is never neutral."

-- John Tagg

"Visual literacy is the ability to understand and to use images, including the ability to think, learn and express oneself in terms of images"

-- R A Braden & J A Hortin

"The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."

-- Edward de Bono

"The greatest teachers of children and adults are the silent teachers all around called images."

-- John Henrik Clarke

"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."

-- Salvador Dali

"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image, which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will."

-- Robert Doisneau

"The reign of imagagology begins where history ends."

-- Milan Kundera

"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images."

-- Camille Paglia

"Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it."

-- Susan Sontag