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 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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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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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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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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