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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
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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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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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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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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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