The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSArt is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSNo man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSThere is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMSWe 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.
ANSEL ADAMSImpression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMSIt 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.
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMSDodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMSThe ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
ANSEL ADAMSThe camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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