Ansel Adams Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
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“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
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“Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.”
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“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
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“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
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“I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
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“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.
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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.”
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“A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”
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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
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“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
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“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
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“I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.”
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.
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“A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.”
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“You don't make a photograph just with a camera”
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“I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.”
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“It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.”
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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.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : "Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley", www.today.com. October 28, 2014.
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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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“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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“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
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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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“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
-- Ansel AdamsSource : Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub
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