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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
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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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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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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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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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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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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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
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The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
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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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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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