You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

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"The whole world is, to me, very much 'alive'—all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life—the things going on-within them."

- Ansel Adams

Awareness

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

- Ansel Adams

Adversity

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

Creativity

"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."

- Ansel Adams

Creativity

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment."

- Ansel Adams

Perseverance

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity