“If you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited,… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my… — 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