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.
ANSEL ADAMSI can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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