Illiteracy Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Short paragraphs that read like photographs.”

— Marisa Reichardt

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

— Sienna Miller

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of…

— Walker Evans

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

— Walter Benjamin

“The picture is bad because the photographer was poor. I took the picture myself, and you can clearly tell I have no money.”

— Jarod Kintz

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

“Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

— Ansel Adams