No 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 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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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 all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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