"The skies and land are so enormous, and……" — Ansel Adams
"The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro."
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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 Detail Quotes
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
— Giorgio Armani
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
— Drew Barrymore
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within…
— Ron Ben-Israel
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I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch…
— Nicolas Cage
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my…
— Ian Anderson
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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