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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."

"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."

"I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done."

"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."

"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted."

"I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

"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."

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."

"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."

"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."

"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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