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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.

Ansel Adams

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Photograph See
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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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Best Photograph Prosperity
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Inspirational People Photograph View
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Value

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