Sally Mann Quotes

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

A photo is a creation.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.