Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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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 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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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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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