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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

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