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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

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
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Photograph Present World
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Accident Mistake Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
ANSEL ADAMS

Feeling Photograph Yourself
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Fight Government Nature Save
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Photograph Technology
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Destroy Nature Price Worth

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.

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