Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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