Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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