Aesthetic Quote by Susan Sontag

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph…

— Jason Fulford

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

— Lewis Hine

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture,…

— Rene Magritte

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud…

— Anton Yelchin

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans