Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSThere is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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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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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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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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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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