Depiction Quote by Thomas Ruff

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

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

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

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

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

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

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards