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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams

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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys 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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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God Myself Photograph Place
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
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
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 the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression

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