Chuck Close Quotes

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

The camera photographs what's there.

The truth is more important than the facts

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Truth is only a question of point of view.