Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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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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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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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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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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