“There are a lot of ways you will suffer. Mostly you will experience rejection….Rejection came in all forms. And why on earth am I writing that in the past tense? I am still getting rejections; my work has been turned down flat several times by curators in the last few years. Rejection still hurts, just like they always did….I got up the morning after every single one of them, as if the past held no lessons, no truth, a gift of ignorance generously bestowed to Southerners, and kept working.”

– Photographer Sally Mann, ‘Art Work’