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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint 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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Nature Photograph Present World
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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
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
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image

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