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.
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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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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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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.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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