The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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