The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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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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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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