Sally Mann

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with…

— Sally Mann

Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m…

— Sally Mann

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up…

— Sally Mann

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back…

— Sally Mann

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you…

— Sally Mann

“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

“Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.”

— Sally Mann

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble…

— Sally Mann

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just…

— Sally Mann

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the…

— Sally Mann

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and…

— Sally Mann

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

— Sally Mann

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

— Sally Mann

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

— Sally Mann

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

— Sally Mann

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but…

— Sally Mann

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

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my…

— Sally Mann