Assignments Quote by Socrates

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

— Baruch Spinoza

You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a…

— Errol Morris

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture.

— Ehud Olmert

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship…

— Errol Morris

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

— Michael J. Sullivan

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

— Rene Magritte

Falsehoods border on truths.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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