I’m going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made. … Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality when discussing art, asserting that the hypocritical, prudish, and philistine English public, when unable to find the art in a work of art, instead looked for the main in it.

I’m going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made. … Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality when discussing art, asserting that the hypocritical, prudish, and philistine English public, when unable to find the art in a work of art, instead looked for the main in it.

– Sally Mann –

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

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