Wim Wenders
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1945, Düsseldorf, lives in Berlin.]
Whoever came up first with that saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” didn’t understand the first thing about either one.

William J. T. Mitchell
[Writer, theorist, and architect, b. 1944, Melbourne, Australia, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a “photography.”

William Eggleston
[Photographer, b. 1939, Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Memphis.]
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other.

Edward Weston
[Photographer, b. 1886, Highland Park, Illinois, d. 1958, Wildcat Hill, California.]
Art is an interpreter of the inexpressible, and therefore it seems a folly to try to convey its meaning afresh by means of words.

Gilles Peress
[Photographer, b. 1946, Neuilly, France, lives in New York.]
I’m proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I’m also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I’m forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it’s like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.

John Loengard
[Photographer, editor, and critic, b. 1934, New York, lives in New York.]
To understand photographs, I believe you have to understand that the camera just shows what it shows. Photography may be moving, exciting, compassionate, or clever. But the camera cannot lie. Neither can a slide rule, a balance. If you want to lie, you have to do it with words.

Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
When you see a group of images together, they create their own context, and, in a sense, their own text.

Arthur Rothstein
[Writer, b. 1915, New York, d. 1985, New Rochelle, New York.]
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.
