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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

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

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

Sally Mann quotes: I never read about photography.

I never read about photography.

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

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

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

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.

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

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

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.

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: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

Sally Mann quotes: I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sally Mann quotes: 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.

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 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.

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