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.
ANSEL ADAMSA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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