In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
ANSEL ADAMS
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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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 artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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