Language Quote by William J. Mitchell Download Open image “Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.” — William J. Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Photography
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 the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey 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 is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality. — Gilles Peress 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
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in… — Bianca Jagger 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
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is… — William J. Mitchell 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
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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