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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

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Greatness Honor Image
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Art Myself Need
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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Forever Illusion Time
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Fight Government Nature Save
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMS

Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
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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Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Expression Imagination Limitation Person Photograph
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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Art Difference Negative Performance Way
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

Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth

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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