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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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

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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