I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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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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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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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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 believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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