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.
ANSEL ADAMSArt is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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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 camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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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 believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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 negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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