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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in ar

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. – Ambrose Bierce

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Cows
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Ambrose Bierce
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise
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Ambrose Bierce
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In my minds 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. – Ansel Adams

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Photography

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

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Photography

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! – Ted Grant

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Photography

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. – Henri Cartier Bresson

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Photography

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. – Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire

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Censorship: protecting you from reality. – Author unknown

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Censorship

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, May 1849

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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. – Pope Paul VI

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inspirational