Accurate Quote by Richard Avedon Download Open image “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” — Richard Avedon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accurate Photography Truth
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ” — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast. — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and lands for… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image