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title: "Best Photography Sayings by Susan Sontag"
description: "106 Photography quotes by Susan Sontag. Plus more from Susan Sontag and more Photography sayings from other authors."
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> [“Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/image-of-an-image-of-an-image-but-to-record-all-the-dips-and-upswings/)

[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/)

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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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> [The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-two-ideas-are-antithetical-insofar-as-photography-is-or-should-be/)

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

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> [Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/instead-of-just-recording-reality-photographs-have-become-the-norm/)

[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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> [A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/a-photograph-is-not-only-an-image-as-a-painting-is-an-image-an/)

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

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-one-can-t-possess/)

[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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> [The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-photographer-is-an-armed-version-of-the-solitary-walker/)

[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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> [“In fact, words do speak louder than pictures. Captions do tend to override the evidence of our eyes; but no caption can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/in-fact-words-do-speak-louder-than-pictures-captions-do-tend-to/)

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

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> [It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/it-seems-positively-unnatural-to-travel-without-taking-a-camera-along/)

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

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> [As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/as-photographs-give-people-an-imaginary-possession-of-a-past-that-is/)

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

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> [“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/if-there-can-be-a-better-way-for-the-real-world-to-include-the-one-of/)

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

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> [Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/although-photography-generates-works-that-can-be-called-art-it/)

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

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> [The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-question-of-the-social-uses-of-photography-opens-out-into-the/)

[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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> [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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> [By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/by-furnishing-this-already-crowded-world-with-a-duplicate-one-of/)

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

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> [As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/as-industrialization-provided-social-uses-for-the-operations-of-the/)

[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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> [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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> [Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/using-a-camera-appeases-the-anxiety-which-the-work-driven-feel-about/)

[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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## Other authors on Photography

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henri-cartierbresson-41329.jpg) Henri Cartier-Bresson 104 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/henri-cartier-bresson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-garry-winogrand-36897.jpg) Garry Winogrand 101 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/garry-winogrand/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ansel-adams-13994.jpg) Ansel Adams 94 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/ansel-adams/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jay-maisel-47721.jpg) Jay Maisel 82 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/jay-maisel/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-annie-leibovitz-13912.jpg) Annie Leibovitz 62 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/annie-leibovitz/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sam-abell-82466.jpg) Sam Abell 61 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/sam-abell/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-martin-parr-64774.jpg) Martin Parr 57 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/martin-parr/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-elliott-erwitt-32797.jpg) Elliott Erwitt 56 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/elliott-erwitt/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-close-24081.jpg) Chuck Close 48 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/chuck-close/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-ellen-mark-65021.jpg) Mary Ellen Mark 47 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/mary-ellen-mark/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-roland-barthes-80799.jpg) Roland Barthes 46 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/roland-barthes/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-abhinavagupta-8944.jpg) Edward Weston 46 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/edward-weston/)

## 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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