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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.

Ansel Adams

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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Important Improvement Photograph Pieces
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Experience Expression
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Camera Inspirational Photographer Possible
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
ANSEL ADAMS

Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Easy Photograph
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Goodness Photograph Position
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
ANSEL ADAMS

Fight Government Nature Save
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Negative Performance Photograph
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.
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Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Ability Photograph Possible Remember
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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Image Mindset Photograph Visual
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
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.
ANSEL ADAMS

Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMS

Hope Negative Photograph Serious Weapon
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMS

Best Photograph Prosperity
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Design Enough Style Technique
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Important Photograph Technology
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality

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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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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