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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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 believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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