Sally Mann Quotes

I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

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

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Make good art.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

I love to be creative.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.