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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."
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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."

"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."

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

"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."

"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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