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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.

Ansel Adams

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Art Easy Photograph
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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
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
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position

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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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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