Believe Quote by Zoe Leonard

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was…

— A. D. Coleman

People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.…

— Cindy Sherman

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…

— Aaron Siskind

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

— Cindy Sherman

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own…

— Gregory Crewdson

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of…

— Saul Leiter

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth…

— Alison Jackson