"In a strict sense photography can never be……" — Ansel Adams
"In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration."
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125 Quotes by Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams has 125 quotes on this site.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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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.
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More Abstract Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstract Quotes,
one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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