Astounding Quote by Duane Hanson

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for…

— Hermann Hesse

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the…

— Hermann Hesse

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

— Peter Lindbergh

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard…

— Hermann Hesse

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make…

— Susan Sontag

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

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

— Thomas Ruff