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Photograph Quotes by Ansel Adams
- 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.
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
- 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.
- 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…
- Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them…
- A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
- We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities…
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good…
- To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in…
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the…
- 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 entail…
- 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 for…
- I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;…
- A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
- A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
- A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.
- There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make…
- To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
- I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
- I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if…
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams