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Ansel Adams Inspirational Quotes (91)

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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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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 have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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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 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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In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera
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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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We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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