Sally Mann Quotes

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I love photography myself.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.