Accents Quote by Edgar Degas

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

— Edgar Degas

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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

— Allan Sekula

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

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

“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.”

— William Moulton Marston

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be…

— James Whistler

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 are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter