Following Quote by Thomas Roma

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic…

— Andre Breton

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the…

— Frank Horvat

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

— Lisa Joy

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming…

— Edward Weston

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan