Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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 don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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