Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
ANSEL ADAMS
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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