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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Ansel Adams

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
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
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
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
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
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself 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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
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
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
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
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
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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

I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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