Artist Quote by Richard Avedon

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

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

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

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

— Lewis Hine

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about…

— Martine Franck

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

— Cesar Romero

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

— Marshall McLuhan

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

"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

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most…

— James Agee

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer