Creeds Quote by Ansel Adams Download Open image “Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.” — Ansel Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creeds Myths Storytelling Truth World
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are funerals. The… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
