Quotes About Truth

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

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.

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.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease, you are still left with physics.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

A picture is a fact.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.