Approved Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light,…

— Damien Hirst

“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

— Richard Avedon

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

— Ansel Adams

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

— Jay Maisel

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

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin