The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMSAs 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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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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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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