We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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