Failure Quote by Sam Abell Download Open image “A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.” — Sam Abell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Mad Making mistakes Mistake Needs Photographer Photography World
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Abell Copy Share
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to… — Tom Segev Copy Share
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image