You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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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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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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