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 ADAMSImage 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human 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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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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