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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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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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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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