I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t make a photograph just with a camera
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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.
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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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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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