Beauty Quote by Susan Sontag

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly…

— Nan Goldin

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

— Nobuyoshi Araki

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

— Elle Fanning

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you…

— Gordon Parks

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan

Photography isn't for people to take pictures of beautiful people or things. It's for capturing raw emotions in the eyes of the beautiful people…

— Jillian Rowe

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

— Anonymous

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

— Susan Sontag

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

— Susan Sontag