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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

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
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
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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 photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology

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