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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

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
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search 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
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself

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