Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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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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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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