"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's……" — Ansel Adams

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

— Ansel Adams

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125 Quotes by Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

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More Composer Quotes

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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. — Ansel Adams
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted… — Dirk Benedict
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven… — Johannes Brahms
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger… — Sarah Brightman
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is… — Benjamin Britten
When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes… — Dave Brubeck
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you… — Tori Amos
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -… — David Amram

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