Ansel Adams Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Confidence, Creativity, Men

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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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  Photography, Self, Expression

  "Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley", www.today.com. October 28, 2014.

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• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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  Photography, Art, Ignorance

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• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

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  Photography, Expression, Photographer

  "A Personal Credo". American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58, 1944.

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

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  Meaningful, Feelings, Growing

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• I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

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  Found Objects, Doubt, World

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• Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

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  Photography, Real, Blazing

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• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

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  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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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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  Thinking, Miracle, Mind

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• I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

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  Art, Looks, Sometimes

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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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  Art, Reality, Men

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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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  Photography, Art, Believe

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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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  Stars, Heart, Soul

  Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams (2002). “Ansel Adams: Divine Performance”, p.16, Yale University Press

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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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  Mind, Chance, Photograph

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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  Photography, Photographer, Digital Photography

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• There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

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  Art, Giving, Events

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Religious

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

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  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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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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  Space, Sunrise, Green

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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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  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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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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  Nature, Woods, Today

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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. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

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  Spiritual, Fall, Light

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• I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

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  Eye, Creative, Innovation

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• Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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  Reality, Spirit, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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