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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.

Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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 know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
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

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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