We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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