Amount Quote by Martin Schoeller

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

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine

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

— Wright Morris

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 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

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

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

— David LaChapelle

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the…

— David Hurn

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

— Andre Kertesz

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