Image-Based Communication Quotes

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

'Instagram' is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

People see images now more than they see movies.

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

No one reads anything. They just look at images.

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