Culture Quote by James Balog

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

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential…

— Thomas Struth

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image…

— Robert Doisneau

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is…

— Lewis Mumford

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while…

— W. Eugene Smith

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman