photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
Susan SontagThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan SontagOur task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.
Susan SontagAlthough none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag