You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSThere is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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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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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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