Being true Quote by Errol Morris

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the…

— David Hurn

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

— Allan Sekula

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

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

— Ansel Adams

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

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

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

— Wright Morris

“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

— Richard Avedon

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

— Richard Avedon

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