“There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.” WritingSpiritualStakesDiariesVirginiaWoolf Author:Sam Abell
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.” ThinkingTakenIndiaPhotographerExoticColorfulNepal Author:Sam Abell
“Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?” PeopleWellsStillsHomeCareInterestingTownsStatementsI CareNoveltyExoticMinusHome Town Author:Sam Abell
“First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.” ThinkingFirstsFactsWantedPhotographAppropriatePairsInvitationsPresentingAuthorship Author:Sam Abell
“I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.” WantLooksUsedCuttingLowsSexyUsed To BeTrendy Author:Kim Kardashian
“A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.” BigsPhotographAfterlife Author:Sam Abell
“I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.” IfsWould BeDifficultStagePlentyGet BetterEightyOblivious Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."” DifficultRealizingIgnorant Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I'm not a big fan of the comics competing against each other.” BigsFansCompeting Author:Janeane Garofalo
