"Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of…" — Ansel Adams
"Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real."
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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 Austere Quotes
This quote is filed under Austere Quotes,
one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts…
— Geraldine Brooks
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none…
— Elinor Wylie
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away…
— Rajneesh
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
— Kingsley Amis
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
— Corbin Bernsen
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
— Alexander Herzen
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The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up…
— Gianfranco Ferre
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