We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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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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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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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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