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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.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication factual and expressive.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the father of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Bad weather makes for good photography.
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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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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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