The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
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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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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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No 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.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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