Computers Quote by Mary Ellen Mark

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

— Paul Virilio

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is…

— Leonard Nimoy

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

— John Paul Caponigro

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig

Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed…

— Barbara Abercrombie

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the…

— Walter Benjamin

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think…

— A. S. Byatt

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

— Wanda Koop