Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMSWe 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Image 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.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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