Forbidden Quote by Frank Horvat

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

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of…

— Nick Harkaway

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

— Brent Stirton

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

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

— Wright Morris

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very…

— Antoine D'Agata

It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers…

— Henry Peach Robinson