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

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul. — Sally Mann

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper. — Sally Mann

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me. — Sally Mann

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic. — Sally Mann

I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64. — Sally Mann

I couldn't deal with a normal life. — Sally Mann

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth. — Sally Mann

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant. — Sally Mann

...luck, aesthetic luck included, is just the ability to exploit accidents. — Sally Mann

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind. — Sally Mann

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia. — Sally Mann

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. — Sally Mann

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living. — Sally Mann

I never read about photography. — Sally Mann

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. — Sally Mann

I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory. — Sally Mann

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess. — Sally Mann

I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed. — Sally Mann

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

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. — Sally Mann

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. — Sally Mann

Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides. — Sally Mann

I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it. — Sally Mann

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one. — Sally Mann

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

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. — Sally Mann

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

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter. — Sally Mann

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. — 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 home to make art. — Sally Mann

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

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

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best, — Sally Mann

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. — Sally Mann

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them. — Sally Mann

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. — Sally Mann

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

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry. — Sally Mann

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable. — Sally Mann

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. — Sally Mann

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. — Sally Mann

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life. — Sally Mann

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter. — Sally Mann

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