Sally Mann Quotes

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.

'House' was such a special part of my life.