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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.

Ansel Adams

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Difference Negative Performance Way
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Believe Paint Photograph
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
ANSEL ADAMS

Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS

Inspirational People Photograph View
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMS

Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS

Communication Expression Photograph Powerful

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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