When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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