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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

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
Photographer
Cameras
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
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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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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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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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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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