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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

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
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 negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself 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
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
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image

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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