You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMSThere are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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