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Sally Mann Quotes

American - Photographer | May 1, 1951 -

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

Sad Death Feel Alive More Us

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

Help Career Living

It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

History Drive Road Impossible Church

I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Mother Know Done Pretty Note Save

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Strength People Insecurity Feel Same

I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

Beautiful Time Death Try Same Take

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

Fun Joy Seeing Pictures Opening See

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

Life People Think My Life You Been

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

Women Eyes Men I Am Way Used

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

Confidence Few Very Vulnerable Males

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

Love Think Media Up I Think Scare

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

Writing You Pictures Out Because

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