Visual Evidence Quotes

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It's nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they've been complaining about. That's one thing that has changed over time.

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

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

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

The camera is the eye of history.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.