No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
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Image is an international language.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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