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I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.

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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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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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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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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The craft of photography is the key to good images.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
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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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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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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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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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