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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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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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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 are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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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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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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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
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