Art Quote by Roland Barthes

So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for…

— Jean Baudrillard

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

— Virginia Woolf

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

— Eudora Welty

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine