"How do we photograph commonplace things and objects? By seeing them for the first time."
A.M. Quotes
"I am a diehard romantic. I bond with everything I encounter–quickly, and shamelessly fall in love with what the world leaves at my doorstep."
"I am an artist in chase of the sublime, and sometimes the sublime coyly stares back at me."
"I am blessed with so very much. All I need is a companion to break bread with me."
"I am constantly amazed by Abraham Menashe. And I am Abraham Menashe."
"I am convinced that it was not the word that came first, but the image. Then came an utterance, a sound that held the image in check."
"I bless all knowledge of light and darkness and all the ways of understanding them."
"I commune with the silence of budding flowers."
"I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick in the full light of day and in the bosom of night's comforting darkness."
"I do not dream of a day when there'll be no more misery, hunger, or war. They are here to waken me that they are inexorably bound to grace, goodness, and the light that hovers above gray clouds."
"I don't have a studio. I walk around the streets, admiring life's generosity and abundance, or gaze at the shine in stranger's eyes, and smile as each invites me in to do my work."
"I don't have to see a therapist because my therapy is the Light I search for."
"I drank the moment and began to glow."
"I give you the images I make, lie still with me and watch."