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 ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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