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.
ANSEL ADAMSYosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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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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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.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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