Digital Alteration Quotes

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use any make-up because I was changing the faces digitally, and I realised I missed make-up in a major way.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

You are good enough as you, so delete that Facetune app and step away from that really weird filter that makes you look smoother than Craig David.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.