A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMSWe 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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