To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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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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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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