"What is truth in photography? It can be……" — 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 capturing a different piece of information."
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24 Quotes by Sally Mann
Sally Mann has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close…
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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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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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More Capturing Quotes
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the…
— Milarepa
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As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of…
— John F. Kerry
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
— Walker Evans
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
— Tom Waits
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Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as…
— Joyce Tenneson
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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
— Michael Pitt
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Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from…
— Andrew Stanton
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Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and…
— Unknown Author
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And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation…
— DJ Jazzy Jeff
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I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life…
— Brassai
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Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids…
— George W. Bush
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I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying…
— Ian MacKaye
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