The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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 comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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