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Ansel Adams Inspirational Quotes (91)

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Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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My wife - she could help me get the negs out!
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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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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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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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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