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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

Ansel Adams

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS

Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMS

Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Leaving Light Nature Quiet
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Focus Image Myself Photograph Silence Word
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
ANSEL ADAMS

Myself Space Sunrise Wonder

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