A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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