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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"

"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."

"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."

"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."

"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."

"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."

"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."

"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."

"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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