It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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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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