Ansel Adams Quotes

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• 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 to reveal themselves, their perceptions…
• 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.
• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
• A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
• I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph…
• Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
• The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

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