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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

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
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness 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 best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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 no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance 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
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
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value

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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