Constructs Quote by David Wojnarowicz

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

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

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

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand