There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSOnce destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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