47 Quotes by Alison Jackson

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.