Susan Sontag Quotes

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

People see images now more than they see movies.

We live in a visual world now.

I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

[Press] Photographers are the only dictators in America.

Image has become everything.

So long as cameras are there, confirmations will be drawn-out photo opportunities.

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

People are obsessed by pictures these days. They just want to say they met someone, have the evidence.

The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring.

I love Instagram and photography.