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.
ANSEL ADAMSI 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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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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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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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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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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.
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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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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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