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.
ANSEL ADAMSOne of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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