96 Quotes by Sally Mann

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.

I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

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.

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.