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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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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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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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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
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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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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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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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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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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 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!
Ansel Adams
