It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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