Visual Deceit Quotes

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.

Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.