Quotes About Reality

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

The camera photographs what's there.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

Photography helps people to see.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Unfiltered photos always get more attention. Filters are easy to discern.

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.

I think one of the problems I think with a lot of people in high school is that people don't think of the Internet as a real place or a place that has physical consequences in the physical world. This happens with adults who ought to know better, too.

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.