We 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.
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.
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMSImage quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
ANSEL ADAMSWith all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMSTo 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.
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
ANSEL ADAMSLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSYosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
ANSEL ADAMSI knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMSNo matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
ANSEL ADAMSA good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMSThe 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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