Culture Quote by Sarah Charlesworth

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Photography is my only language.

— Andre Kertesz

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

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

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

— Gilles Peress

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

Photography is a language more universal than words.

— Minor White

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but…

— Mary Ellen Mark

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

— Lisa Kristine

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

— William J. Mitchell

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie