Accurate Quote by Richard Avedon

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

— Richard Avedon

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

“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have…

— Hazel Gaynor

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 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

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

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

“What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.”

— T.A

“The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes. Even if the people in it do.”

— Andy Warhol

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope.…

— Robert Adams

“Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you.”

— Sloane Crosley

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