The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
Susan SontagAlthough there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are
Susan SontagIn the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
Susan SontagNobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Susan Sontag