"One of the things my career as an……" — 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 things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art."
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24 Quotes by Sally Mann
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If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and…
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I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my…
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What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when…
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
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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…
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Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.
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Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air.…
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I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of…
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Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child.…
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As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work…
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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…
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The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,
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