Emphasis Quote by Aaron Siskind

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

— Marc Riboud

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the…

— Daido Moriyama

Photography is a language more universal than words.

— Minor White

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in…

— Bianca Jagger

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

— Joan Didion

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall