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 ADAMSWith all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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