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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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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 negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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