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All Quotes Collection
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
61
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
55
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
51
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
59
"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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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
65
"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
44
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
59
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
44
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
41
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
65
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
79
"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."
73
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
49
"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."
40
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
75
"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."
43
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
50
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
49
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
42
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
59
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
27
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
30
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
30
"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
27
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
25
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
18
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
15
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
56
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks."
48
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
67
"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
24
"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
23
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
24
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
22
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
22
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
43
"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
18
"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
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