Arnold Newman Quotes
I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.
Citations
Hill, Paul, and Thomas Cooper. Dialogue with Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979, p. 88.
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Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.