It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Let 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.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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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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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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