Art Quote by Mark Ryden

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

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

— Shelan Rodger

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

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

— Frederick Wiseman

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Image is an international language.

— Marjane Satrapi

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

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

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that…

— Godfrey Reggio

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

— Wright Morris