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

Negative, Performance

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

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Van Morrison, British Musician

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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

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"An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction."

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."

George Woodcock, Canadian Writer

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"I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums."

Ricky Skaggs, American Musician

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Claude Shannon, American Mathematician

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Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet

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