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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

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
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself 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
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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 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
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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

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