You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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.
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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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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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