Roberto Rossellini Quotes

The camera photographs what's there.

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

I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

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

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.