You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSThe camera cannot, but the photographer can.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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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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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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