Bird Quote by Duane Michals

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

— John Paul Caponigro

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

— Stuart Franklin

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography as the…

— Jamelle Bouie

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams