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 c…

- 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 to, to be another…

- 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 a Z.

- 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. …

- 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 where it's going …

- 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, but a…

- 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 …

- 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 most wonderful univ…

- 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