Ability Quote by Garry Winogrand

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how…

— Brian Selznick

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

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

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

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

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

— Rod Stewart

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce…

— Arthur Rothstein

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

— Cornell Capa

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman