Sally Mann Quotes

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

We have art in order not to die of life.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

The moment of change is the only poem.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.