Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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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 horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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