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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

Ansel Adams

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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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Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
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

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

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