Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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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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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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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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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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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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