A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMSThe term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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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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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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.
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