Sally Mann Quotes

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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.
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
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