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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
— Lynsey Addario
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.
— Luhraw
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.
— Arnold Newman
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
— Peter Adams
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
— Yousuf Karsh
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
— Irving Penn
I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.
— Anthony Farrimond
I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.
— Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina
An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?
— Luhraw
They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.
— Liz Welch, The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.
— Jay Maisel
To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.
— Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
— George Eastman
Looking at Loh’s photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almostexpressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don’t know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before?
— Raphael Millet
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
— Raphael Millet
The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.
— Luhraw
Photography is not something you retire from.
— Annie Leibovitz
By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.
— A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
— Annie Leibovitz
The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...
— Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy of fashion, which is ever-changing with the seasons, but the beauty of a soul, that inner life that reveals itself so seldom, just for an instant, and only if you look closely and learn to see with an open heart.
— Elizabeth Ross, Belle Epoque
In the context of photography , there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.
— Adithya Zen
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs—especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past—are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the eroticfeelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.
— Dragan Tapshanov
Pictures can be pretty deceptive.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.
— Paul Chaplo
If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.
— Deeksha Mittal
No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I've got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car... It's that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don't need a key, just pull hard.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain "forgets," and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good – it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet.George Bernard ShawWilson’s Photographic Magazine, LVI, 1909
— John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye
(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.
— Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys
You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)
— Milton Meltzer, Dorthea Lange: A Photographer's Life
Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
Be in love with the moments of your life.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
The greatest moments are right in front of you.
— Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
When you press the shutter, time won't see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment... and thats the best Farewell for that moment.
— Sagar Gosavi
Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I still do most of my own printing. I've developed such a profound distaste for touch-up and modern artifice—comes from snapping too many derelicts and detritus, perhaps, but I love it. Photo bloody Shop can go stuff it. A picture should be honest, even if the subject is contrived on the ground, you know; not dolled-up for advertising punch or sex appeal.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
You see, i f you have t rue photographic vision, you have clar i ty and i f you haveclarity, you don't need to explain or defend your images.Clar i ty is about what emot ions or feel ings the image is t rying to evoke, not the fact sbehind the image.Photographic clar i ty is about passion of purpose. I t 's about a single-minded desi reto protect a memory. I t 's about story tel l ing wi th a camera that 's so power ful , nowords are necessary.
— Scott Bourne, Essays on Inspiration, Creativity & Vision in Photography
There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was
— Robert Frank
Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.
— Scott Bourne, Essays on Inspiration, Creativity & Vision in Photography
To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to giveyoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning orlosing. Just DO.
— Scott Bourne, Essays on Inspiration, Creativity & Vision in Photography
The time of the photograph is [always] after. This imprecision accommodates the numerous successions, the end upon seismic end, in a time without time, un[re]countable: still. In this, it is a perfect crime, “l’anéantissement anéanti, la fin… privée d’elle-même.
— Nathanaël, Sisyphus, Outdone.: Theatres of the Catastrophal
Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.
— Doug Bartlow
God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.
— Mark Denman
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
— Roland Barthes
Art is unpredictable.
— Joe Papagoda
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
— Helmut Newton
Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!
— ilyass azaryouh
Looking into the mirror I ask myself:"You live in a house equipped with air conditioning.You eat tasty food.You utilize convenient transportation to travel.You utilize convenient information technology to live.Could you not say that you, who do all this, are not a dictator?Isn't it right that you life is supported by somebody else's death?Doesn't your life that exists at the expense of somebody else's sacrifice infinitely resemble the life of a dictator who only cares about his own life?"-Yasumasa Morimura (excerpt from "Mr. Morimura's Dictator Speech").
— Marinella Venanzi, Yasumasa Morimura: Requiem for the XX Century
There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.
— Joel Sartore
PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.
— aman verma
I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair.
— Steve Merrick
God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.
— Mark Denman
My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.
— Michael "Nick" Nichols
Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what's happening and, finally, manoeuvre yourself to the point where you can take a picture, and then you're presented with a 20-minute window where it's: Okay, now get your picture!' His voice is charged with emotion. 'Fucking angst and worry and, you know, FEAR of failure – every aspect of that comes into those 20 minutes, so it's a very intense experience. So when I make those pictures, I'm worried; I’m nervous.
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth
What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth
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— fotografer
Two kinds of people , they spend a lot of time to take a perfect shot of God's creation from the same distance , the first ones take it with their guns and the second ones take it from their Cameras .. I am blessed that I am from the second ones.. ❤️
— Fida Rasool
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.
— Kiera Cass, The Prince
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.
— Sameh Talhamy
He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
— Annie Leibovitz
The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
The camera basically is a license to explore.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook.
— Junior Ming
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
— Émile Zola
Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs
—  when buying a newspaper.
The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.
— Geoff Dyer, Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010
So, what do you photograph?”I swallow my wine.“What?”“You know – city scapes, nature, portraits, candid shots...”Boobs. I photograph boobs.“Uhh... people?
— Iris Blaire, Dark Frame
Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.
— Chanaka Satharasinghe.
With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.
— Søren Kierkegaard
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
— Harry Callahan
This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.
— Jane Alison, The Sisters Antipodes
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
— Annie Leibovitz
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
— Ansel Adams
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
— David Alan Harvey
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?
— Francesca Woodman
The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.
— David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.
— T.A
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
— Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself
Photography helps people to see.
— Berenice Abbott
Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.
— Dara McGrath
I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of Thetford, taken in 1868, in which William Smith is not. The street is empty. There is a grocer's shop and a blacksmith's and a stationary cart and a great spreading tree, but not a single human figure. In fact William Smith - or someone, or several people, dogs too, geese, a man on a horse - passed beneath the tree, went into the grocer's shop, loitered for a moment talking to a friend while the photograph was taken but he is invisible, all of them are invisible. The exposure of the photograph - sixty minutes - was so long that William Smith and everyone else passed through it and away leaving no trace. Not even so much of a mark as those primordial worms that passed through the Cambrian mud of northern Scotland and left the empty tube of their passage in the rock.I like that. I like that very much. A neat image for the relation of man to the physical world. Gone, passed through and away.
— Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.
— David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.
— Aurélien Roulland
What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don’t know, or don’t see. You don’t really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment.
— Jesús Holguin
What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.
— Don DeLillo, White Noise
Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.
— Solita
With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.
— Harold Davis, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis
My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.
— Devin Dygert
It’s the difference between your wife’s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you gotengaged. Both may have been created with similar technology, but what stands in that great gulf between them are the passion you have for your wife, the knowledge you have of her personality, and your willingness to use your craft, time, and energy to express that. One says, “She looks like this.” The other says, “This is who she is to me. It’s how I feel about her. See how amazing she is?
— David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.
— Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures
If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.
— Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures
Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium.
— Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
— Aaron Siskind
Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are likeapplause.
— A.K. Nicholas, True Confessions of Nude Photography: A step-by-step guide to recruiting beautiful models, lighting, photographing nudes, post-processing images, and maybe even getting paid to do it.
How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph.
— Rosanne Moreland
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me: a photo of a beaten, weathered hull of a rowboat. I knew about as much about boats as I did photography, which was next to nothing, but that boat wasn’t going anywhere near the water anytime soon unless the owner decided it would make a mediocre shipwreck to explore while scuba diving. Nevertheless, it faced the out-of-focus lake in the background, almost hopefully, as if it hadn’t yet decided its best days were gone, as if it still dreamed of bobbing peacefully on the waves.“Does that one have a name?” I asked.She smiled. “Seaworthy.
— Leesa Freeman
...if we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his cameras by mule, and the person stepping out of his car to take a picture with an Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.
— Robert Adams
I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.
— A.K. Nicholas, True Confessions of Nude Photography: A Step-by-Step Guide to Recruiting Beautiful Models, Lighting, Photographing Nudes, Post-Processing Images, and Maybe Even Getting Paid to Do It.
This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.
— William A. Ewing
It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
— Judith McNaught, Something Wonderful
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we’re supposed to. But it’s a lie, it’s all a lie.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.
— Kasie West, The Fill-In Boyfriend
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better
— Harvey Milk
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Old liarshold lies.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Smell shit when one's bragging.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.
— Michael Bernard Beckwith
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
— John Irving
My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs.
— Tracy Ames
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
— Cassandra Clare
Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.
— Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead
To the union of all honest men.
— Aaron Burr Jr.
It came as naturally to him as breathing or lying, or worse. His mama had only taught her son to be cautious at all times. Garnette was more than that. Much, much more than that.
— V.S. Carnes
Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.
— Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between good and bad faith can be vague; behind the "I don't know" and "I do not remember" that one hears in courtrooms there is sometimes the precise intent to lie, but at other times it is a fossilized lie, rigidified in a formula.
— Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about page three.'They were comfortable in each other's company, and this confession seemed to accentuate the ease of their relationship. The confession itself was not entirely true; Isabel had read more Proust than that, but other people undoubtedly found it reassuring to think that one had only read a few pages. Certainly those who claimed to have read Proust in his entirety got scant sympathy from others. And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read? Some politicians, she reminded herself, did that--or the equivalent--when they claimed to be down-to-earth, no-nonsense types, just like the voters, when all the time they were secretly delighting in Proust . . .
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.
— Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Kisses could lie as well as words.
— Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone
...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.
— Mark Lawrence
Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.
— Deyth Banger
Paradox: Pinocchio says “My nose will grow" if it doesn’t he is lying but it didn’t grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?
— Chuck Bridges
Where are you going?”He looked over his shoulder at me. “If I stay, you won’t get any sleep.”“Stay,” I said. “I promise to keep my hands to myself.” Lie—such an outright lie.He gave me a half smile that told me he knew it, too, but nestled down, tugging me into his arms. I wrapped an arm around his waist and rested my head in the hollow of his shoulder.He idly stroked my hair. I didn’t want to sleep—didn’t want to lose a minute with him—but an immense exhaustion was pulling me away from consciousness, until all I knew was the touch of his fingers in my hair and the sounds of his breathing.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Dear Mr. Chance and Ms. Brattle. Sorry about the mess. Great bed. Loved it. As a matter of fact, loved the whole house. Actually, I tried to kill your kids when I found them here. Yeah, funny story. Maybe not funny, hah hah.’”Astrid heard nervous laughter from the media people, or maybe just from the hotel staff who were hovering around the edges grabbing a glimpse of the Hollywood royalty.“‘Anyway, I missed and they got away. I don’t know what will happen to Sanjit and that stick-up-his butt Choo and the rest, but whatever happens next, it’s not on me. However . . .’”Astrid took a dramatic pause.“‘However, the rest of what happened was on me. Me, Caine Soren. You’ll probably be hearing a lot of crazy stories from kids. But what they didn’t know was that it was all me. Me. Me me. See, I had a power I never told anyone about. I had the power to make people do bad things. Crimes and whatnot. Especially Diana, who never did anything wrong on her own, by her own will, I mean. She—and the rest of them—were under my control. The responsibility is on me. I confess. Haul me away, officers.’”Astrid suddenly felt her throat tightening, although she’d read the letter many times already, and knew what it said. Rotten son of a . . . And then this.Redemption. Not a bad concept.Well, partial redemption.“It’s signed Caine Soren. And below that, ‘King of the FAYZ.’”It was a full confession. A lie: a blatant, not-very-convincing lie. But it would be just enough to make prosecutions very difficult. Caine’s role in the FAYZ, and the reality that strange powers had actually existed in that space, were widely known and accepted.Of course Caine had enjoyed writing it. It was his penultimate act of control. He was manipulating from beyond the grave.
— Michael  Grant, Light
You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
— Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck
The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.
— Steven Magee
How do we stop them?” Edilio asked. He raised his head, and Sam saw the distress on his face. “How do you think we stop them? When your fifteenth birthday rolls around, the easy thing is to take the poof. You gotta fight to resist it. We know that. So how are we going to tell kids this isn’t real, this Orsay thing?”“We just tell them,” Astrid said.“But we don’t know if it’s real or not,” Edilio argued.Astrid shrugged. She stared at nothing and kept her features very still. “We tell them it’s all fake. Kids hate this place, but they don’t want to die.”“How do we tell them if we don’t know?” Edilio seemed genuinely puzzled.Howard laughed. “Deely-O, Deely-O, you are such a doof sometimes.” He put his feet down and leaned toward Edilio as if sharing a secret with him. “She means: We lie. Astrid means that we lie to everyone and tell them we do know for sure.”Edilio stared at Astrid like he was expecting her to deny it.“It’s for people’s own good,” Astrid said in a low voice, still looking at nothing.“You know what’s funny?” Howard said, grinning. “I was pretty sure we were coming to this meeting so Astrid could rank on Sam for not telling us the whole truth. And now, it turns out we’re really here so Astrid can talk us all into becoming liars.
— Michael  Grant, Lies
I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.
— Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life
Both girls jumped at a hard blow on the door. Eve hastily unlocked the door and stepped back as it flew open, and Shane charged through.“How—?’” He was breathing hard, and he had a crowbar in his hand. He’d have broken through the locks, Claire realized, if he’d had to. She came toward him slowly, trying to figure out what he was feeling, and he dropped the crowbar and wrapped his arms around her, lifting her up off the ground. His face was buried in the crook of her neck, and the warm, fast pump of his breath on her skin made her shiver in raw delight. “Oh Christ, Claire. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.’”“Not your fault,’” Eve said. She held out the field hockey stick. “Look! I hit him. Um, twice.’”“Good.’” Shane kissed Claire’s cheek and let her slide back down to the floor, but he kept hold of her arms. His eyes, bright under the bruises and swelling, surveyed her carefully. “He didn’t hurt you? Either of you?’”“I hit him!’” Eve repeated brightly, and brandished the stick again for emphasis
— Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance
Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she said freely. With Peter, she was laid bare; he extracted her from herself.Peter didn't know what to say. HIs eyes glimmered, bright and burning. He only let her see them a moment before he turned away. He took a ragged breath."What were you doing with Rose anyway" she demanded, asking a lot of him.Peter darkened again. He turned his back to her, took a step farther into the alley, and said in a dead voice, "I don't have to like herto get what I want.""I don't believe you," Valerie said, reaching for his face, again. Peter pulled away from her. "You're lying.
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood
How can you say it was all a lie?” I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. ‘We have to look out for her.’ That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me?
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
There are two opposing conceptions concerning lies. The first is attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who is reputed to have said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” There is another one, attributed to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said: “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”It is clear that the Russian leadership has a preference for Lenin’s approach. Even faced with unequivocal evidence it continues to deny the facts. Apart from unfounded accusations against Georgia of genocide and the denial of its own use of cluster bombs, the war in Georgia was preceded and accompanied by open lies, misinformation (for instance, about “uncontrollable” South Ossetian militias), and active disinformation, all reminiscent of the old Soviet style.In this way Russia almost succeeded in hiding the most important fact: that this was not a “Russian-Georgian war,” but a Russian war against Georgia in Georgia. There was not a single Georgian soldier that crossed the Russian frontier at any point. The Georgian troops that went into South Ossetia did not cross international frontiers, but intervened in their own country, no different from Russian troops intervening in Chechnya. It was Russian and not Georgian troops that crossed the border of another, sovereign country, in breach of the principles of international law [230―31].
— Marcel H. Van Herpen, Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards.
— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Faith and Hope are spiritual graces from God; therefore, to look at a situation and to say that ‘it is hopeless’; or to look at one’s self, and to say that ‘I am hopeless’, is closing the door in the face of God.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
In life, we have no control over the storms that we encounter. It’s normal to feel devastated and sad, but to continue being sad is already our choice.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
I realized that just because “I can’t,” doesn’t mean “I shouldn’t.
— Kcat Yarza
What's the most offensive is not their lying- one can always forgive lying- lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth- what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying....
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to build the best character, then I am going to stick on the lie. This is the thingy which helps us to get out of...
— Deyth Banger
Okay, now what to do if I don't like this person like him or her??SAy a lie? - Is it okay?(So far theoretical truth, comes from the lies, the lies are the beginning...)Say a truth?- So far it hurts,...
— Deyth Banger
A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.
— Fred Munoz
The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.
— Fred Munoz
I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie.
— Deyth Banger
It's hard to impress me in case you don't know me, to lie me there isn't purpose I will find soon or later the truth. The lie just make the stuff complex and complex and after all I just don't want anymore to believe in your words, if you want to sacrifice this okay, continue to do this and I can assure that soon everything will come in it's order.
— Deyth Banger
So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
— Deyth Banger
Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!
— Deyth Banger
They lied for new season after 5 for Breaking bad, they stopped the incrediable series "Lie to me", after season 3 there isn't other. It's horrible isn't it?
— Deyth Banger
Let's don't join the mask to say the truth and without a mask to say the lie. DON't BE a such pussy, people which are an idiots, stupid and... they do this. You aren't one of them, unless you join them and you be part of them. Truth always goes with us, it follows and always can be found, the lie is just masks, one over another, over another and what happens in the end... You even don't know with which guy did you sleep, was this guy with you yesterday or you were in date with other??
— Deyth Banger
How I know that??? Or that???I'm around liars and scammers I know a lot of them.... I will only say this.
— Deyth Banger
-I would die for you-You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees to get you back? -Because you're feeling alone -If need your love-You don't need me, you only need a person-And you're that person-No I'm not-But I love you-That what I do
— M
In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?
— Deyth Banger
Fantasy is a wise lie.
— Deyth Banger
How have everything started???Just two humans man and woman make so many people on the planet??? That's impossible, it can't happe, it's something else..... SO what you are saying Adam has fucked Eve day and night??? ANd how have they take care for so many kids???... What if the planet is flat and nasa and all other stuff are lieing???
— Deyth Banger
Don't lie to a liar,
— Victoria Aveyard
A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie
—  repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
Relative truths can also be absolute.Relative absolute truths are like two people looking at the same coin, from two different sides, each sees a different truth and presumes they are looking at the same coin, and yet neither side can see the third side.
— Caesar J. B. Squitti, The Jesus Christ Code: The Light: The Rainbow of Truths
Political truths are like colors in the rainbow, they may be true, except like the color purple which is created in the mind, however they are not THE WHOLE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, colorless and yet all colors, seen and unseen.
— Caesar J. B. Squitti, The Jesus Christ Code: The Light: The Rainbow of Truths
The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!
— Deyth Banger
Bake a lie into proven facts and you will be surprised at how many fall for it.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller
he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
To come here and lie about your life you must have very big confidence and courage to do it.
— Deyth Banger
Is there possibility somebody to don't lie and to don't say the truth??- Truth hurts!- Lie, just makes mess after mess and mess and you just die as liar (You don't want it, do you?)
— Deyth Banger
What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...
— Prince
The fake people, are these which always lie.
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid
Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
— Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
The truth , refutes the lie.
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.
— Stephen King, Insomnia
He had you in his room?" A dark cloud crosses Jeb’s face. “Do you swear he didn’t try anything?”“Scout’s honor.”He squeezes my waist, tickling me. “Too bad you were never a Scout.”I squirm and smile. “Nothing happened.”That’s a lie. Morpheus got to me in a big way, showing me a side of myself I can hardly believe exists—one I’m not sure Jeb will be able to accept.
— A.G. Howard, Splintered
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth.
— Ron Baratono
The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what did you give him?”You had a warrior’s heart, even then.Kestrel spat blood. “Nothing,” she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. “I gave him nothing.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.
— Bianca Scardoni, Inception