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

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. — Sam Abell

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell

Essentially what photography is is life lit up. — Sam Abell

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed. — Adora Svitak

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this. — Mario Vazquez

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute. — John Joly

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

And if the soul
Is to know itself
It is into a soul
That it must look:
The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror. — Giorgos Seferis

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

The unusual wins out over the usual. — Sam Abell

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. — Sam Abell

I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day. — Virgil Green

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox

Give a man a fish shop
and he'll flounder.
Teach a man to manage a fish shop,
and he'll learn to fill it! — Cameron Semmens

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. — Sam Abell

A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet. — Paolo Bacigalupi

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it. — Paulo Coelho

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they? — Lauren Bacall

I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games. — Albert Camus

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

To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

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. — Sam Abell

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive. — Sam Abell

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. — Sam Abell

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