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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.

Ansel Adams

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Fight Government Nature Save
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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Myself Space Sunrise Wonder
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph Position
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Value
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Design Enough Style Technique
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
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 ADAMS

Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Photograph Present World
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Image Mindset Photograph Visual

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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