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“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“The act is in itself a lie. You're faking something. The girl is lying there, she's pretending that she doesn't know the camera's on, she's getting banged, and "accidentally" it leaks out? Everyone leaks their own sex tapes! That's a ploy to get famous - that's not about the sex. It's not like when Madonna did her Sex book, and it was an artistic endeavor where she acknowledged it and spoke about it and was so upfront about it. It's different. It's not upfront. It's not honest. It's a ploy to get famous.”

Knows Book Different Lying Girl Sex Honest Cameras Artistic Spokes Endeavor Pretending Tape Leaks Not Honest Ploy

Author:Kristen Stewart

“In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.”

Reality Lying Term Media Cameras Versions Providing Edited

Author:Mal Fletcher

“[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.”

People World Humans Has Beens Age Lying Turns Names Objects Photography Mass Cameras Photograph Proportion Deceit Museums Multiple Merchandise

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.”

People Knows Character Might Lying Fronts Cameras Lifetime Insight Insult Know Me Portraits Wrinkles

Author:Duane Michals

“There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.”

Littles Romance Lying Bits Little Bit Cameras Lenses Camera Lenses Vaseline

Author:Richard Jeni

“It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.”

People Enough Lying Realizing Clear Cameras Foolish Liars Doubtful Slippery Never Lie

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.”

Stories Form Lying Turns Attention Half Battle Photography Cameras Majority Strive Photographer Photograph Convinced Mediums Naturalism Conceded

Author:Andreas Feininger

“The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.”

Lying Behinds Fronts Cameras Intention Photograph Authenticity Manipulate Never Lie

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Wells Lying Audience Know How Depends Lovers Cameras Blind Mood Hungry Feel Good Evening Damn Touched Fickle Blind Date

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."”

Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Honest Approach Photography Cameras Photographer Mediums Communion Inquiry Swagger

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.”

Wells Self Eye Lying Memories Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Cameras Photographer Visible Unseen Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe