A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMS
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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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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