I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
ANSEL ADAMSNo matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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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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