One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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