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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

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness 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 knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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
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
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
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
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
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

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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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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