Consider Quote by Peter Lindbergh

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually…

— Duane Hanson

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

I touch up photos so people look as good in their photographs as they did in real life.

— Scott Kelby

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

— Petra Collins

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard…

— Hermann Hesse

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee