Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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 make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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