Doe Quote by Edward Said

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't…

— David Hockney

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Bill Jay

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

— Errol Morris

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Wright Morris