When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMSHow high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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