Authority Quote by Bill Henson

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

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

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler