A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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 believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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