"Hold death always near. For its very presence is what spurs the creative life."
A.M. Quotes
"Hope is Darkness holding out its hand to the emerging Light."
"How do we photograph commonplace things and objects? By seeing them for the first time."
"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 woman 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 an image. Then came an utterance, a sound that held the moment in check."
"I am just wonder covered with flesh."
"I am such a diehard romantic. I bond with everything I encounter quickly, and shamelessly fall in love with what the world leaves at my door."
"I bless all knowledge of light and darkness and all ways of understanding them."
"I came here to dispossess myself of despair and fear, and each new day provides me with another opportunity to do just that."
"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."