Believe Quote by Eddie Adams

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person…

— Eddie Adams

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

— Laurie Simmons

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally…

— Barbara Kruger

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

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

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

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

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful…

— Taryn Simon

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