Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan SontagPhotographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.
Susan SontagMozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. donโt redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
Susan Sontag