I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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