I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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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