Ruth Bernhard Quotes

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

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

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

Perception and reality are two different things.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

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

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

People think that they see, but they don't.

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

Nothing in this world is real

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.