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.
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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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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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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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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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