Yosemite Valley Quotes by Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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.

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