Top 28 Sam Abell Quotes

#1. In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

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#2. For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

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#3. The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

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#4. A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

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#5. When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

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#6. My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

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#7. Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

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#8. There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

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#9. Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

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#10. It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

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#11. I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

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#12. I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

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#13. Just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation ... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

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#14. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

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#15. As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

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#16. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

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#17. The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process ... Because photographers ... think things through and ... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

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#18. Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

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#19. Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe ... then you're the long-distance runner.

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#20. My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

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#21. There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

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#22. Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

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#23. Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

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#24. The unusual wins out over the usual.

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#25. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

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#26. How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

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#27. I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

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#28. I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

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