Ansel Adams on image
Ansel Adams75 quotes“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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams 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.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Bad weather makes for good photography.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams 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.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams The craft of photography is the key to good images.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti Man made God in his own image.
Eckhart TolleEckhart Tolle Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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