Sally Mann Quotes

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.