With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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