Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“The act of looking appraisingly at a man, studying his body and asking to photograph him, is a brazen venture for a… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.” — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“If you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write,… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best, — Sally Mann Copy Share Image