The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
ANSEL ADAMSWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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