Sam Abell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”