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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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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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I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
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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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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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