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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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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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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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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
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The whole world is, to me, very much alive - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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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 photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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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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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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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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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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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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