Sam Abell Quotes

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Learning how to use different formats has made me a better photographer. When I started working in medium format, it made me a better 35 mm photographer. When I started working in 4x5, it made me a better medium-format photographer.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.

It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.