Sally Mann Quotes

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

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.

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

There is no must in art because art is free.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

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

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Every man is an artist.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.