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 ADAMSThe artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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