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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.

Ansel Adams

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art Experience Expression
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 make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photograph See Truth
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
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
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Goodness Photograph

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