Ansel Adams Quotes
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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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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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 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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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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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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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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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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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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You don't take a photograph, you make it.