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Sally Mann Quotes

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I’d park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in Picture Quote #1

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family Picture Quote #1

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you’ve taken before Picture Quote #1

It’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art Picture Quote #1

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, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself Picture Quote #1

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs Picture Quote #1

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These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun Picture Quote #1

I don’t see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves Picture Quote #1

Unless you photograph what you love, you’re not going to make good art Picture Quote #1

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories Picture Quote #1

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future Picture Quote #1

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed Picture Quote #1

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The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best Picture Quote #1

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do Picture Quote #1

It’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary... it never occurred to me to leave home to make art Picture Quote #1

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach Picture Quote #1

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind Picture Quote #1

The earth doesn’t care where death occurs... It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will Picture Quote #1

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As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you’ve taken before Picture Quote #1

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance Picture Quote #1

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My main interest was finding boyfriends. I’d park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. (Sally Mann Quotes) There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family. (Sally Mann Quotes) As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you’ve taken before. (Sally Mann Quotes) It’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art. (Sally Mann Quotes) 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, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself (Sally Mann Quotes) Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs (Sally Mann Quotes) These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun (Sally Mann Quotes) I don’t see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves (Sally Mann Quotes) Unless you photograph what you love, you’re not going to make good art (Sally Mann Quotes) Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories (Sally Mann Quotes) Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future (Sally Mann Quotes) I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed (Sally Mann Quotes) The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best (Sally Mann Quotes) I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do (Sally Mann Quotes) It’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary... it never occurred to me to leave home to make art (Sally Mann Quotes) I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach (Sally Mann Quotes) All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind (Sally Mann Quotes) The earth doesn’t care where death occurs... It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will (Sally Mann Quotes) As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you’ve taken before (Sally Mann Quotes) Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance (Sally Mann Quotes) I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement (Sally Mann Quotes) 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 (Sally Mann Quotes) I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring (Sally Mann Quotes) 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 (Sally Mann Quotes)