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Images Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
- Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or…
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
- Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
- Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
- Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
- 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 the past.
- As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
- People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of…
- To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to…
More Images Quotes
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams
- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. — Lynda Barry
- My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images… — Rob Bell
- And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin