Artist Quotes by Sally Mann

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

— Sally Mann

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

— Sally Mann

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

— Sally Mann

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

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,

— Sally Mann