Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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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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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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The 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.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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