![[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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/cameras-tend-to-turn-people-into-things-and-the-photograph-extends-and-multipli.jpg)
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photography thinking may
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. Richard Avedon
photography real doe
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.
photography facts portraits
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
photography perception natural
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded. Umberto Eco
photography suffering records
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. Robert Capa
photography war till-the-end
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
photography best-picture truth-is
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
photography photographer good-enough
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
photography spanish-civil-war
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying political hours
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. Willie Brown
lying ideas choices
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me. Woody Allen
lying boys views
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.
lying reality people
It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
lying military criticism
I don't take criticism lying down. William Westmoreland
museums people trying
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this. Vivienne Westwood
museums earth christianity
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. Mark Twain
museums opponents election
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. Lyndon B. Johnson
museums sometimes empty
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself. Haruki Murakami
museums scene theater
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters. Bjorn Ulvaeus
museums stories care
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures. Billy Crystal
museums flags confederate
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum. Donald Trump
museums ifs walking
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. Adam Carolla
museums doe hollywood
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. Dean Martin