Susan Sontag Quotes

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

A picture is like a prayer.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Modeling isn't boring.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Art is I; science is we.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.