Lying Quote by Wright Morris Download Open image “However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.” — Wright Morris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lying Materials May Photograph Raw material Raw materials Truth
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything. — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances. You and I possess the power to change our thoughts. It is our greatest power - the power to choose. If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax. Look at… — Bob Proctor Copy Share
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
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