A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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 can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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