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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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 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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The 35mm camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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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 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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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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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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.