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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 Adams

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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Beautiful Believe End Magic Myself Nature Wonder
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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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Design Enough Style Technique
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Ability Excitement Eyes Feeling Goodness Mindset Photograph Practice
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Collection Myself Thinking
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Fight Force Human Live Men Spirit
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
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 ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
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 only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit

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.

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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.

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