Martha Rosler Quotes

A life which does not go into action is a failure. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story? — Martha Rosler

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems. — Martha Rosler

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone. — Stevie Wonder

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him — Kenneth Wapnick

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot? — Martha Rosler

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. — Kathy Acker

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was. — Martha Rosler

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. — Martha Rosler

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink. — Ann Coulter