Appearance Quote by Francis Bacon

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

— Barbara Kruger

A real picture can be altered to something fake leave it up to people.

— Martin Stubbs

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

— David Attenborough

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

— Errol Morris

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in…

— Martha Rosler

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

— Thomas Ruff

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

— David Hockney

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so…

— Kristanna Loken