"We make images to "honor what is greater……" — Ansel Adams
"We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.""
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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 Greater Quotes
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even…
— Marcel Achard
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our…
— Teresa of Avila
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
— Francis Bacon
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
— Abu Bakr
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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