--- title: "4 Camera Quotes By Susan Sontag" description: "4 Camera quotes by Susan Sontag. Plus more from Susan Sontag and more Camera sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/susan-sontag-332_aggression_there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every_453322.jpg" --- > [There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every-use-of-the-camera/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/susan-sontag-332_aggression_there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every_453322.jpg) > [Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-perhaps-the-most-mysterious-of-all-the-objects-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/susan-sontag-332_arms_photographs-are-perhaps-the-most-mysteri_759671.jpg) > [To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-people-is-to-violate-them-by-seeing-them-as-they-never-2/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/578/susan-sontag-332_cameras_to-photograph-people-is-to-violate-them_1593630.jpg) > [You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/you-can-go-into-all-sorts-of-situations-with-a-camera-and-people-will/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/susan-sontag-332_camera_you-can-go-into-all-sorts-of-situations_2851313.jpg) ## Other authors on Camera - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-wilson-52521.jpg) John Wilson 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/john-wilson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-ellen-mark-65021.jpg) Mary Ellen Mark 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/mary-ellen-mark/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henri-cartierbresson-41329.jpg) Henri Cartier-Bresson 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/henri-cartier-bresson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hockney-27569.jpg) David Hockney 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/david-hockney/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-annie-leibovitz-13912.jpg) Annie Leibovitz 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/annie-leibovitz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kim-weston-57281.jpg) Kim Weston 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/kim-weston/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gordon-parks-39048.jpg) Gordon Parks 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/gordon-parks/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eve-arnold-34296.jpg) Eve Arnold 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/eve-arnold/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ansel-adams-13994.jpg) Ansel Adams 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/ansel-adams/) - [RaMell Ross 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/ramell-ross/) - [Rachel Morrison 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/rachel-morrison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-diamandis-74795.jpg) Peter Diamandis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/peter-diamandis/) ## More by Susan Sontag > [the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-appetite-for-thinking-must-be-regulated-as-all-sensible-people/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [We are ruled by quotations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/we-are-ruled-by-quotations/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/unfortunately-moral-beauty-in-art-like-physical-beauty-in-a-person-is/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/like-the-collector-the-photographer-is-animated-by-a-passion-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [ Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… \[The anthropologist\] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/anthropology-has-always-struggled-with-an-intense-fascinated/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/why-not-eliminate-schooling-between-age-12-16-it-s-biologically/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-people-is-to-violate-them-by-seeing-them-as-they-never/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/one-set-of-messages-of-the-society-we-live-in-is-consume-grow-do-what/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/currently-intellectuals-in-western-europe-and-north-america-are/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/with-the-modern-diseases-once-tb-now-cancer-the-romantic-idea-that/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/as-objects-of-contemplation-images-of-the-atrocious-can-answer-to/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-creative-phase-of-an-idea-coincides-with-the-period-during-which/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event-or-a-person-into-something/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/i-m-not-interested-in-giving-aid-and-comfort-to-the-neo-conservatives/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) > [The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-feminist-movement-has-been-important-to-me-because-it-s-made-me/) [Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/camera/susan-sontag/#itemlist", "name": "4 Camera Quotes By Susan Sontag", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Susan Sontag" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every-use-of-the-camera/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/susan-sontag-332_aggression_there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every_453322.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/susan-sontag-332_aggression_there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every_453322.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/susan-sontag-332_aggression_there-is-an-aggression-implicit-in-every_453322.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.” — Susan Sontag", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. 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