I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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