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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera

Ansel Adams

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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Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Explanation Need Photograph True Word
Image 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.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photograph Poetry Reality
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Camera Photograph Technology
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
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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Existence Moments Negative Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
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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Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
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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Determination Improvement Photograph Teaching World Yourself
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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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
ANSEL ADAMS

Feeling Photograph Yourself

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera

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