One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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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. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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