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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
"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 making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."
"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."
"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."
"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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