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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

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
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
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
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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