A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMSBad weather makes for good photography.
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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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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.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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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 think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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