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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

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
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
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
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

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