Art Quote by Mason Cooley

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

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

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

— Cindy Sherman

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

— Ansel Adams

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.…

— Cindy Sherman

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased…

— Zoe Leonard

I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became…

— Gabriel Orozco