A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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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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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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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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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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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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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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