Importance Quote by Susan Sontag

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that…

— Jakob Bohme

“...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in…

— Miklós Bánffy

Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

— J. K. Rowling

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

— William Shakespeare

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

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

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

— Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag