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We make images to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.

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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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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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
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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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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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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
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