It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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