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.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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