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.
ANSEL ADAMSWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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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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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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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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