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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

Ansel Adams

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
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 Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
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
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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 only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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 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
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
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

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