Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
ANSEL ADAMSAsk yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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.
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