Ansel Adams Quotes
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
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Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
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If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
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No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical Liberalism . . . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.