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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'."
Ansel Adams
Quote #111
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
Quote #142
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing it."
Oscar Wilde
Quote #143
"Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling."
Leonardo da Vinci
Quote #146
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #160
"The fullest appreciation of any landscape comes only when one is also alive to its meaning."
Francois Matthes
Quote #178
"Your statements will be personal - whether you like it or not!"
Morley Baer
Quote #179
"Even the modest, completed project is better than the grandest good intention."
Brooks Jensen
Quote #181
"There's nothing intrinsically wrong with seeing the world through the eyes of others. After all, a lot of teaching and learning happens that way. But there is much to be said for also seeing the world through one's own eyes. ... What's the point of standing upon the shoulders of giants if your only vision is downward?"
Raphael Shevelev
Quote #184
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
William Wordsworth
Quote #222
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
Ansel Adams
Quote #244
"Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #286
"Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #287
"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
Berenice Abbott
Quote #292
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop."
Usman B. Asif
Quote #309
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
Ruth Bernhard
Quote #321
"Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you."
Wynn Bullock
Quote #382
"Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things."
Edward Steichen
Quote #390
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself..."
Edward Steichen
Quote #391
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Walker Evans
Quote #417
"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
George Eastman
Quote #451
"Everything is one and I am one with it."
Ruth Bernhard
Quote #526
"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."
Ansel Adams
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