Believe Quote by Tod Papageorge

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

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit…

— Harry Callahan

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

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this…

— Martin Parr

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where…

— Laurel Nakadate

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

My relationship to photography and film is knowledge production, and it's how to engage with the world in a way that approximates the complexity…

— RaMell Ross

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