Joseph Roux Quotes

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

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

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

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn't always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.