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

Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Experience Expression
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS

Negative Performance Photograph
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
ANSEL ADAMS

Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS

Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph Position
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMS

God Myself Photograph Place
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Easy Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust

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