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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.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
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San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
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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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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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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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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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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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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
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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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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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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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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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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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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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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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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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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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