The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSNo 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.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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 the score, and the print the performance.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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