A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMSA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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