Abelardo Quotes & Sayings

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 a Z. — 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 photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever. — Abelardo Morell

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all. — Marlene Dietrich

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few. — Kim Newman

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 where it's going to go. — Abelardo Morell

Indeed, as Peter Whittle recounts, during World War II efforts to solve the question so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts ... that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage. — Brian Christian

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! — Lewis Carroll

White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is "all colors" and "no color" at the same time. — Kenya Hara

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger. — Andy Rourke

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself. — Abelardo Morell

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. — Paul Ryan

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body. — Cyril Connolly

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, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight. — 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 being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe. — 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 vantage points I hadn't considered before. — 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 take me? — Abelardo Morell

Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond. — Namie Richards

A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom. — Adriana Trigiani

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes. — Abelardo Morell

Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes. — Conan O'Brien

stupid america

stupid america, see that
chicano
with a big knife
on his steady hand
he doesn't want to knife you
he wants to sit on a bench
and carve christfigures
but you won't let him.
stupid america, hear that
chicano
shouting curses on the street
he is a poet
without paper and pencil
and since he cannot write
he will explode.
stupid america, remember
that chicano
flunking math and english
he is the picasso
of your western states
but he will die
with one thousand
masterpieces
hanging only from his mind. — Abelardo Delgado