Ansel Adams quotes - page 2

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. (Ansel Adams)
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. View quote
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I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. View quote
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. View quote
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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. View quote
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. View quote
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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! View quote
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions. (Ansel Adams)
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! View quote
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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 brea. View quote
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity. View quote
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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. View quote
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At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans. View quote
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. (Ansel Adams)
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. View quote
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. View quote
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While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel. View quote
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To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. View quote
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