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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

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.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

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.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value ...

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..

My wife - she could help me get the negs out!

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

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.