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All Quotes by author - Sally Mann

" At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients. "

" 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. "

" Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture. "

" 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. "

" I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry. "

" I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. "

" I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it. "

" I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. "

" I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess. "

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

" I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64. "

" I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it. "

" It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one. "

" It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated. "

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

" Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation. "

" The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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