Kind Quote by Laurie Anderson

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural…

— Marjane Satrapi

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work…

— Michael Craig-Martin

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

— Waheeda Rehman

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

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

Image is an international language.

— Marjane Satrapi

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

— Tibor Kalman

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than…

— Agnes Varda

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it…

— Mark Ryden

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct,…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

— Jean Baudrillard

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg