If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. — Sally Mann Copy Share
All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind. — Sally Mann Copy Share
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
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… — Sally Mann Copy Share
What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its… — Sally Mann Copy Share
