96 Quotes by Sally Mann

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

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.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

I never read about photography.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.