We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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