Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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