I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMSLife 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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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