The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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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 term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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