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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."

"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them."

"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."

"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."

"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."

"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."

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

"Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught."

"Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be."
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"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."

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

"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."
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