Sam Abell Quotes


"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."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Photography, Pleasure, Simplicity)

"It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use."
- Sam Abell
"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Work, Ability, Unconscious)

"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Desire, Photography)