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.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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