Bits Quote by Lucian Freud

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

— Andre Kertesz

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

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

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content,…

— Garry Winogrand

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

— Diane Arbus

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that…

— Keith Barry

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

— Linda Palmer

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell…

— Sara Quin

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine