The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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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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.
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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.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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