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 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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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