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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMS

Collection Myself Thinking
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS

Inspirational People Photograph View
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
ANSEL ADAMS

Image Mindset Photograph Visual
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
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

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Experience Expression
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality

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