Believe Quote by Laurie Simmons

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

— Wright Morris

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

— Eddie Adams

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

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

— Martine Franck

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally…

— Barbara Kruger

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth…

— Alison Jackson

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

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

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

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

— Martin Schoeller

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

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine