There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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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.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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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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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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