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.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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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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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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