Absolute truth Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an…

— Ernst Gombrich

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”

— Paul Klee

“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art to tell…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

— Paul Klee