Susan Sontag Quotes

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

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

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.