The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMSThe term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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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.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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