Photography Quotes by Abelardo Morell

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the…

— Abelardo Morell

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as…

— Abelardo Morell

“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and…

— Abelardo Morell

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care…

— Abelardo Morell

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used…

— Abelardo Morell

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from…

— Abelardo Morell

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning,…

— Abelardo Morell

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay…

— Abelardo Morell