Ansel Adams Quotes
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
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The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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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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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
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All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
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I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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