Death Quote by Susan Sontag

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag