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.
ANSEL ADAMSTo 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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