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> [The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/the-earth-doesn-t-care-where-death-occurs-it-s-the-artist-by-coming/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

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## More 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/my-main-interest-was-finding-boyfriends-i-d-park-myself-in-the/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/unless-you-photograph-what-you-love-you-re-not-going-to-make-good-art/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/i-struggle-with-enormous-discrepancies-between-the-reality-of/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/if-you-want-to-keep-a-memory-pristine-you-must-not-call-upon-it-too/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/sometimes-when-i-get-a-good-picture-it-feels-like-i-have-taken/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/one-of-the-things-my-career-as-an-artist-might-say-to-young-artists/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/if-it-doesn-t-have-ambiguity-don-t-bother-to-take-it-i-love-that-that/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/there-is-a-great-quote-from-a-female-writer-she-said-if-you-don-t/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/when-the-good-pictures-come-we-hope-they-tell-truths-but-truths-told/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/all-the-good-pictures-that-came-so-easily-now-make-the-next-set-of/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/i-m-so-worried-that-i-m-going-to-perfect-my-technique-someday-i-have/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/the-things-that-are-close-to-you-are-the-things-you-can-photograph/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/like-all-photographers-i-depend-on-serendipity-and-when-you-re/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/i-m-past-photographing-to-see-what-things-look-like-photographed/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

> [What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-mann/what-is-truth-in-photography-it-can-be-told-in-a-hundred-different/)

[Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-mann/)

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