The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMSArt is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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