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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
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
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
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 don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
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 camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

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