Foreign language Quote by Philip-Lorca diCorcia Download Open image “Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.” — Philip-Lorca diCorcia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreign language Language Photography Speak Thinking
Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey Copy Share Image
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and… — David Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth,… — August Sander Copy Share Image
Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population,… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought… — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image