Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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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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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
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I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
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The 35mm camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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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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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.