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.
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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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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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 artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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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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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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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 craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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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 great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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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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