Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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 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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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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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