I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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