The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMSThe 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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