Compassion Quote by 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

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Weegee

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

— 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

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

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

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

— Barbara Ess

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the…

— Roland Barthes