Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMSTo photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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