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Ansel Adams

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

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
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"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."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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