Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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