Ability Quote by Taryn Simon

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

— Guy Le Querrec

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some…

— Sally Mann

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it…

— Bill Henson

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

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

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

— Eugene Delacroix

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan