Susan Sontag Photography Quotes
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Susan Sontag Photography Quotes & Sayings
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I use very few muscles at the best of times.
— Johnny Vegas
When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
— Susan Sontag
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.
— Otto Ohlendorf
Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.
— Robert D. Kaplan
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
— Susan Sontag
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
— 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
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
— Susan Sontag
When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.
— Megan McCafferty
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
— Publilius Syrus
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
— Susan Sontag
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
— Susan Sontag
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
— Susan Sontag
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
— Susan Sontag
Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.
— Gustav Hasford
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
— Susan Sontag
Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are. — Susan Sontag
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
— Susan Sontag
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
— Candice Olson
Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.
— Benjamin Franklin
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
— Claudette Colbert
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
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
— Susan Sontag
