The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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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.
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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 one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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