Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMSIn 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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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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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
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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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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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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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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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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
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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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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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