Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMSYou 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 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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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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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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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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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