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Ansel Adams

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Photograph Value
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.
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Art Myself Need
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.
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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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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Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
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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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Camera Important Photograph Technology
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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Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
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.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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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Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces

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