It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
ANSEL ADAMSThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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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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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 don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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