A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSThe camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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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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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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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 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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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 negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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