“Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.” FictionPaintingPhotograph Author:Josip Novakovich
“I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.” PeopleIfsMindIdeasDifferentStoriesRememberParentMemoriesFictionOur LivesCouplePhotographMoodInterpretationFillingTrust OthersFilling In Author:Steven Tyler
“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.” ThinkingWayLooksBookMatterFictionGoneSubjectsPhotographMy WayPackagesSelectSubject Matter Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.” BelieveDoeHas BeensLyingFictionPhotographyPhotographDespitePretension Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.” IfsMomentsFictionSubjectsSurprisePhotographStrikesRevelationsCompellingRemembranceFidelity Author:Tod Papageorge