Clarity Quote by Jason Fulford

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in…

— Bianca Jagger

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

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

— Walker Evans

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the…

— Arthur Rothstein

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

— Joseph Joubert

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

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to…

— Aaron Siskind

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