Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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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.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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