"I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us."

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Source : "Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley", www.today.com. October 28, 2014.

Ansel Adams

#Photography Quotes #Self Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.”
“I have this mistress: show business.”
“I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle...”
“In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.”

Source : Iain Pears (1999). “An Instance of the Fingerpost”, Berkley Publishing Group
“It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.”
“A new study reveals that one-third of babies in the U.S. have used a smartphone. Yeah, and one-third of babies in China have MADE a smartphone.”
“I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.”
“I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.”

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