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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Ansel Adams

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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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
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
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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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
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
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
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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