Molly Crabapple Quotes

I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?

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 at all.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

I don't over-photoshop my images; I really don't like to do that so much.

I touch up photos so people look as good in their photographs as they did in real life.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.