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Ansel Adams Inspirational Quotes (91)

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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
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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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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of phonies in all the arts.
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Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
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Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
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