Quotes by Sally Mann

Sally Mann

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

Impossible

Mind

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.

Artist

Body

Taken

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

Childhood

Children

Rivers

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

Photographer

Portraits

Way

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

Eye

Men

Thinking

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.

Art

Attention

Trying

I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

Art

People

Philosophy

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

People

Photography

Thinking

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.

Children

Spiritual

Spring

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.

Layers

Thinking

Trying

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Angel

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Artist

Attention

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Children

Creating

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Dog

Doubt

Emily

Emotional

Errors

Expression

Eye

Feelings

Fun

Garden

Heart

Home

Impossible

Inspirational

Interesting

Kind

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Lenses

Levels

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Looks

Love You

Memories

Men

Might

Mind

Numbers

Parks

Passion

Past

People

Perfect

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Quotes by Sally Mann

Sally Mann

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

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.

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

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.

I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

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 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.

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