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 ADAMSYou 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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 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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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 ‘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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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