Appearances Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image ““When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.”” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearances Appearances-are-deceiving Honesty quotes Photography Photography-quotes
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies. Sutton laughs. What’s funny? Photographer says. Nothing. Except—that’s… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer. — Linda Palmer 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
“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
When will we regard human beings as human beings? Why do we discuss someone's appearance? And when we can't find faults in appearances, we… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
“He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak — Jacques Benigne Bossuel Copy Share Image
“The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share
If it shuffles like a zombie, stinks like a zombie, and moans like a zombie, make sure it isn't your mom, then shoot it… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature. ... Anytime she had an opportunity to… — J. Randy Taraborrelli Copy Share
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting… — Feist Copy Share Image
In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
To reach Bergomi at the top of appearances for Inter in Europe gives me pride. — Javier Zanetti Copy Share Image
You can be 19 or 20 and playing reserve team football, be able to say 'I played at,' say, 'Manchester United,' even though you… — Matt Doherty Copy Share Image
