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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams

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
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
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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