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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

I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
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
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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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Camera Photograph Yourself
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
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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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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
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
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality

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