When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMSHow high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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