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Top 20 Sam Abell Quotes (2025 Update)

Sam Abell Quote: “It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.”

1. “It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.”

Sam Abell Quote: “Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.”

2. “Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.”

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

3. “A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.”

Sam Abell Quote: “The unusual wins out over the usual.”

4. “The unusual wins out over the usual.”

Sam Abell Quote: “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”

5. “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”

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

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

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Sam Abell Quote: “Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.”

8. “Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.”

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.”

10. “My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.”

Sam Abell Quote: “Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.”

11. “Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.”

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

12. “The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.”

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

Sam Abell Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “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.”

21. “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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