You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSI believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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