You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSAsk yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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 is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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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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