Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

The image is an image.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

The best cinema is about ethics.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

A picture is a fact.

That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.

The moment when images replaced words in American politics.

Image has become everything.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

People can express themselves better with images than just text, so they communicate more this way.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.