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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.

Ansel Adams

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Art Design Enough Style Technique
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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Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Art Believe Paint Photograph
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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Ability Photograph Possible Remember
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need

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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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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