A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMSLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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