Deceiving Quote by Christian Boltanski Download Open image “Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.” — Christian Boltanski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceiving Evidence Giving Photography Used
The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth. — Brent Stirton Copy Share Image
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence. — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph. — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it,… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way. — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
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