You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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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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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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