A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMSLife is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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