Beauty Quote by Henry Adams

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of…

— Robert Adams

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

— Franz Kafka

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

— John Ruskin

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its…

— Gerhard Richter