Images Quote by Susan Sontag

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't…

— David Allee

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

— Elliot W. Eisner

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

— Guy Debord

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig…

— John Dykstra

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings…

— Susan Sontag

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

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Susan Sontag

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

— Neneh Cherry