Sally Mann Quotes

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.