In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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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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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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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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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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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Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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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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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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