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.
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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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It 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.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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