Career Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Highest Inspirational Man To Man Men Photography Vocation
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if… — Nickolas Muray Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live. — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Don’t allow anyone to pressure you into taking a job in a field that doesn’t feel right in your gut. You are the one… — Alison James Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image