Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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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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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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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.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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