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.
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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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