Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Today, 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.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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