The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSI don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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