Importance Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “To photograph is to confer importance.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Importance Photograph Photography
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I… — Peter Turnley 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
