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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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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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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 knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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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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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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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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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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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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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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