"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
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"Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas."
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"I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word."
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"The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet."
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"I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop."
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"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
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"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these."
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"How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level."
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"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."
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"We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow."
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"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into."
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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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"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."
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"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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"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop."
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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"The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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