abbott Quotes

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.”

“Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.”

“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.”

“Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.”

“My family were from Jamaica.”

“Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.”

“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”

“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.”

“When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.”

“The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.”