I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
ANSEL ADAMSThe only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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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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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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