Truth Quote by Joseph Roth

“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It's about showing it to others as you see it yourself.”

— Katja Michael

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or…

— Pierre Reverdy

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some…

— Minor White

Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a…

— Guy Debord

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects…

— John Locke

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with…

— Umberto Eco