Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: โThere is the surface. Now think โ or rather feel, intuit โ what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.โ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
Susan SontagWhen you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
Susan SontagOne criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by anotherโs ambitiousness.
Susan Sontag