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When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese. — Susan Sontag

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! — Walter Alexander Raleigh

I couldn't help but ask myself if I was doing the smart thing. I wasn't, but sometimes the smart thing wasn't the same thing as the right thing — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. — Susan Sontag

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. — Susan Sontag

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. — Susan Sontag

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. — Susan Sontag

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. — Susan Sontag

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. — Susan Sontag

I can take care of myself," I said hotly.
"Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself. — Nenia Campbell

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. — Susan Sontag

To collect photographs is to collect the world. — Susan Sontag

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. — Susan Sontag

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera. — Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. — Susan Sontag

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. — Susan Sontag

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag

Astounded - and indifferent - for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'. — Oliver Sacks

What we have deeply loved we can never lose, it remains in our heart for ever. — Debasish Mridha

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are. — Susan Sontag

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is. — Susan Sontag

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. — Susan Sontag

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. — Sontag, Susan

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it. — Susan Sontag

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once. — Susan Sontag

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. — Scott Michael Foster

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. — Susan Sontag

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. — Susan Sontag