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Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all…

— Arthur Rothstein

Photography is a language more universal than words.

— Minor White

“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

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

— Herbert Bayer

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

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

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way…

— Luigi Ghirri

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

— William J. Mitchell

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth,…

— August Sander

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