Top 27 Fiction Photography Quotes
#1. It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
Diane Arbus
#2. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
#3. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.
Taryn Simon
#4. Don't let not knowing what to do prevent you from doing anything at all
Victoria Alexander
#5. Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.
Christina Westover
#6. Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
Frank Fairfield
#8. What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.
Steve Berry
#9. No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise.
Jamie Mason
#10. I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
Sean Durkin
#11. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care.
Douglas Adams
#12. She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.
Josephine Humphreys
#13. A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist.
Dean Koontz
#14. Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love.
Christina Westover
#15. I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living
but not for my 5 cats
Charles Bukowski
#16. Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.
Natasha Solomons
#17. The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
#18. I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
Eleanor Antin
#19. Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
William James
#20. 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.
Joan Fontcuberta
#21. Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.
Christina Westover
#22. When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.
Liza M. Wiemer
#24. You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
Robertson Davies
#25. With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
Martin Parr
#26. I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it particularly now. A picture is not the world, but a new thing.
Tod Papageorge
#27. A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.
Richard Avedon
