Boundaries Quote by Arthur Rothstein

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

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

— Arthur Rothstein

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

— Helmut Gernsheim

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural…

— Marjane Satrapi

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is a language more universal than words.

— Minor White

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the…

— William J. Mitchell

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

— William J. Mitchell

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie