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Ansel Adams

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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Photograph Value
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
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
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
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
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

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