To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool apprai…

- Sally Mann

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be ou…

- Sally Mann

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, be…

- Sally Mann

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

- Sally Mann

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of …

- Sally Mann

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

- Sally Mann

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

- Sally Mann

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the s…

- Sally Mann

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

- Sally Mann