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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.

Ansel Adams

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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Goodness Image Keys Photograph
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Design Enough Style Technique
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMS

God Myself Photograph Place
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
ANSEL ADAMS

Forever Illusion Time
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Difficult Disappointment Hard Time Photograph
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Communication Creation Ideas Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph

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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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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