Bell Hooks Quotes

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

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

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

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.

We're changing the world with technology.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.