Pictures Lie Quotes

#1. People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Laurie Simmons

#2. The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Paul Auster

#3. Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him.

Gillian Flynn

#4. There is more beauty inside you than in anyone I have ever met. These pictures don't lie. I won't ever forget you. Or stop loving you. You can ask me to. You can tell me to move on. But I won't. And I never will. Just don't forget how beautiful we were. How beautiful we can still be.
Please.

A Meredith Walters

#5. Jesus came into this world and died on the cross to blow apart all the deceptive mental pictures of God that we've been enslaved to since the original fall and that lie at the root of all idolatry and sin,

Gregory A. Boyd

#6. Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie.
Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way

Earl Mac Rauch

#7. After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. //
Pictures? No, they lie. You're not the picture. My dear, you're not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You're not these trunks of junk and dust. You're only you, here, now - the present you.

Ray Bradbury

#8. I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

Linda Palmer

#9. He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. [People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec