Ansel Adams Quotes
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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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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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera.
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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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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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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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I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
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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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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as 'Film is the score and the print is the performance.')
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I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.