The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMSToday, 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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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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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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 know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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