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.
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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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 think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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