I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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