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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

Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMS

Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMS

Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Fight Government Nature Save
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Design Enough Style Technique
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS

Negative Performance Photograph
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
ANSEL ADAMS

Forever Illusion Time
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Photograph Yourself

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