14 Sam Abell Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sam Abell

American Photographer

Born: 1945

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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. Sam Abell

Photographer Mentality Known

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

Alone Photography Stay Seems Very Arts Moment Serve Humans Desire

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Sam Abell

Life Woman Photography First Become Plaza Distinct Would Sunlight Photographs Hurrying Horizon Shadows Abstract Sharp Most Stunning Practiced Up Wall Northern Ohio Where Grew Landscape Figure Image

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

Work Needs World Mistakes Mad Out Photographer Make Get Keen

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. Sam Abell

Life Light Finished Single Distant Visual Photographs Horizon Rarely Often Interest Held Strand Moment Fully Expression Image Presents

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

Work Best Ability Best Work Unconscious Almost Understand Occurs Often

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view. Sam Abell

Me Light Weather Seen Montana Earth About More Small Lifestyle Open Combination Most Within Prairie Cultures Sublime Mountain Different Central Grander Landscape Landscapes View Appeals Compelling

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. Sam Abell

Mistake Made Every Rug Complete Photograph Would Spirit Something Deliberate Take Almost Godlike Human Hole Ever

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. Sam Abell

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. Sam Abell

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

Life Best Expectation Lesson Given Teaches

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