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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
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
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
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
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
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
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
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
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
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

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