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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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.
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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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