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81 " The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. "
― Rebecca Solnit , Men Explain Things to Me
82 " Photographers don't take pictures. They create images. "
― Mark Denman
83 " It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom. "
― H.G. Wells
84 " ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never " plain," nor appearances ever " sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful. "