Andy Grundberg
[Critic, curator, and educator, lives in Washington, D.C.]
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. 
Bill Gates
[Businessman, b. 1955, Seattle, Washington, lives in Medina, Washington.]
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. Richard Nixon
[Politician, b. 1913, Yorba Linda, California, d. 1994, New York.]
I’m wondering if that was fixed.
(Nixon doubting the veracity of Nick Ut’s photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing the village of Trang Bang, Vietnam after it was napalm bombed in 1972; from the White House tapes.) Karl Marx
[Political philosophers, b. 1818, Trier, Germany, d. 1883, London.]
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive. Frank Zappa
[Musician and composer, b. 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 1993, Los Angeles.]
And if another woman driverGets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie
And you’ll see it all complete.
Jean Cocteau
[Writer, poet, artist, and filmmaker, b. 1889, Maisons-Lafitte, France, d. 1963, Milly-la-Foret, France.]
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs. Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment... It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world.