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.
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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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 wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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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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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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