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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.

Ansel Adams

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Leaving Light Nature Quiet
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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
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
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Believe Environment Life Myself

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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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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