You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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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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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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