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.
ANSEL ADAMSImpression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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