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"I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life."
"I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite."
"Notebook. No photographer should be without one!"
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
"We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't."
"Bad weather makes for good photography."
"I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds."
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence."
"I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music."
"It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium."
"I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction."
"The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro."
"The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them."
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces."
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
"The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results."