Available Quote by Gilles Peress

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

— Sarah Charlesworth

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

— William J. Mitchell

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

Photography is a language more universal than words.

— Minor White

Photography is my only language.

— Andre Kertesz

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

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Arthur Rothstein

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

— Catherine Opie

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

— Mary Mattingly