Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make 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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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