Ansel Adams Quotes
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I'm very interested in science.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
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I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
