Accustomed Quote by Cindy Sherman

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

— Cindy Sherman

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth…

— Alison Jackson

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

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased…

— Zoe Leonard

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

— Laurie Simmons

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

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

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very…

— Antoine D'Agata

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

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit…

— Harry Callahan

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams