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

— Ansel Adams

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

— Ansel Adams

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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ↗

— Henry Adams

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In my mind's 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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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ↗

— Brooks Adams

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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. ↗

— Jack Adams

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I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand. ↗

— Don Adams

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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. ↗

— Bryan Adams

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