Class Quote by Henry Peach Robinson

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the…

— Richard Avedon

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

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine

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

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

— Martine Franck

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about…

— Martine Franck

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

— Wright Morris

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston

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

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat