We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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 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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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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