There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMSToday, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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