The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMSOne of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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