Ian Hacking Quotes

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

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

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.