The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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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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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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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 great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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