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Quote by Ansel Adams
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the sur

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. – Ansel Adams

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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. – Ansel Adams

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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams

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

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo da Vinci

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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. – Leonardo da Vinci

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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. – Arthur Cayley

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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didnt think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. – Tim Robbins

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, its the best possible substitute for it. – James A. Garfield

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