Ansel Adams Quotes
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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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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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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 believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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The 35mm camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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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 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 do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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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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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.