Being true Quote by Errol Morris

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

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship…

— Errol Morris

“What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.”

— T.A

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

— Bill Jay

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

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

— Martine Franck

“In fact, words do speak louder than pictures. Captions do tend to override the evidence of our eyes; but no caption can permanently restrict…

— Susan Sontag

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

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

— Ansel Adams

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

— Allan Sekula