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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
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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Art Design Enough Style Technique
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
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 camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

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