As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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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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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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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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