A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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