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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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