You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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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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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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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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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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