You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSThe artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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