Honest Quote by John Loengard

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

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

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world…

— David Wojnarowicz

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

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You…

— Errol Morris

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

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

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

— Edward Steichen

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

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher