Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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