I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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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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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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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