I follow many tragedies ...

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass amount of information, and I feel like acting - reacting. My manifesto has always been the same: I cannot act in the world before understanding the world. I will not move a finger. I will not come up with any ideas - nothing - until I actually understand what is happening.
 Alfredo Jaar

Quotes from the same author

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
 Alfredo Jaar
Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
 Alfredo Jaar