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.
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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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