Beggar Quote by Nick Harkaway

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

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

— Brent Stirton

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

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

— Wright Morris

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers…

— Henry Peach Robinson

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

— Inge Morath

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

— Richard Avedon

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