There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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