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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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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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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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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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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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