Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMS
ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams on art
Ansel Adams75 quotes“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
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Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams 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.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams 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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Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Bad weather makes for good photography.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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