Abstract Quote by Mel Bochner

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

— Paul Virilio

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Arnold Newman

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

— Gregory Crewdson

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it…

— Idris Khan

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas;…

— Gilles Peress

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

— John Paul Caponigro

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

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