Art Quote by Storm Thorgerson

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

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and…

— Wynn Bullock

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature…

— Duane Michals

I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any…

— Gerardo Suter

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

— William Morris Hunt

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because…

— Berenice Abbott

My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my…

— Alfredo Jaar

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating…

— Alix Smith

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

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

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a…

— Eudora Welty