How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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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