Illusion Photography Quotes

#1. Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

Paul Gauguin

#2. Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions ... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

Taryn Simon

#3. It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#4. People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Max Lucado

#5. I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

Catrina Burgess

#6. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Ruth Bernhard

#7. So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?

Yoko Ogawa

#8. A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Garry Winogrand

#9. The mourner is in fact ill, but because this state of mind is common and seems so natural to us, we do not call mourning an illness ... . To put my conclusion more precisely: I should say that in mourning the subject goes through a modified and transitory manic-depressive state and overcomes it.

Joan Didion

#10. Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Steven Pinker

#11. People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.

Richard Misrach

#12. People are under the illusion that it's easy ... Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

Brett Weston

#13. Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Douglas McCulloh

#14. Overcrowding and poverty, that "defied description", as

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#15. When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

Philip K. Dick

#16. I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro

#17. If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

Rory Stewart

#18. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Arnold Newman