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.
ANSEL ADAMSLet 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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