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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

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
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
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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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Feeling Photograph Yourself
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

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