Jack Nicholson Quotes

I try to capture reality, nothing else.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

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

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

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

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

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

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The camera is the eye of history.

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.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I try to find the picture, not create it.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

The image is an image.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Draw what you see.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.