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title: "60 Photograph Quotes By Susan Sontag"
description: "60 Photograph quotes by Susan Sontag. Plus more from Susan Sontag and more Photograph sayings from other authors."
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> [Today everything exists to end in a photograph.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/today-everything-exists-to-end-in-a-photograph/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Life is a movie; death is a photograph.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/life-is-a-movie-death-is-a-photograph/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/travel-becomes-a-strategy-for-accumulating-photographs/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-is-to-frame-and-to-frame-is-to-exclude/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [To collect photographs is to collect the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-collect-photographs-is-to-collect-the-world/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-photograph-comes-into-being-as-it-is-seen-all-at-once/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [To photograph is to confer importance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-is-to-confer-importance/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-shock-insofar-as-they-show-something-novel/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/all-photographs-aspire-to-the-condition-of-being-memorable-that-is/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-furnish-evidence-something-we-hear-about-but-doubt-seems/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/time-eventually-positions-most-photographs-even-the-most-amateurish/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/nobody-ever-discovered-ugliness-through-photographs-but-many-through/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [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/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-trade-simultaneously-on-the-prestige-of-art-and-the-magic/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [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/)

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> [It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-is-not-altogether-wrong-to-say-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as-2/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/although-there-is-a-sense-in-which-the-camera-does-indeed-capture/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-photograph-is-to-appropriate-the-thing-photographed-it-means/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/while-a-painting-even-one-that-meets-photographic-standards-of/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-alter-and-enlarge-our-notions-of-what-is-worth-looking-at/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/standing-alone-photographs-promise-an-understanding-they-cannot/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/in-contrast-to-the-written-account-which-depending-on-its-complexity/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/despite-the-illusion-of-giving-understanding-what-seeing-through/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [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/)

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> [Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/knowing-a-great-deal-about-what-is-in-the-world-art-catastrophe-the/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-photograph-is-both-a-pseudo-presence-and-a-token-of-absence-like-a/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/to-us-the-difference-between-the-photographer-as-an-individual-eye/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photography-the-supreme-form-of-travel-of-tourism-is-the-principal/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/between-two-fantasy-alternatives-that-holbein-the-younger-had-lived/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/any-photograph-has-multiple-meanings-indeed-to-see-something-in-the/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-family-s-photograph-album-is-generally-about-the-extended-family/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/so-successful-has-been-the-camera-s-role-in-beautifying-the-world/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/life-is-not-significant-details-illuminated-by-a-flash-fixed-forever/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-photograph-is-like-a-quotation-or-a-maxim-or-proverb-each-of-us/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-particular-qualities-and-intentions-of-photographs-tend-to-be/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/mallarme-said-that-everything-in-the-world-exists-in-order-to-end-in/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/strictly-speaking-it-is-doubtful-that-a-photograph-can-help-us/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/just-as-a-camera-is-a-sublimation-of-the-gun-to-photograph-someone-is/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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## Other authors on Photograph

## 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/)

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