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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
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 take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
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
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
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
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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