Bearing witness Quote by Brent Stirton

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

— George Bernard Shaw

Photography is truth.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

— Inge Morath

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of…

— Nick Harkaway

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

— Leonard Freed