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.
ANSEL ADAMSThere are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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You 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.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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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 single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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