Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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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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I 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.
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