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You don't make a photograph j...

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

A photograph is not an accide...

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

There are no forms in nature....

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 a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

"Simply look with perceptive ...

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

I am sure the next step will ...

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to...

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

We either have wild places or...

We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

The whole world is, to me, ve...

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

You don't make a photograph j...

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

I can't verbalize the interna...

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 I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

Photographers and artists con...

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

I believe photography is a to...

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

All art is the expression of ...

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

I know some photographs that ...

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; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

The photo-journalist and the ...

The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.

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There still is some oppositio...

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

Photography has escalated alm...

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

The negative is comparable to...

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

I've always thought photograp...

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.

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The disciples are drawn to th...

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

Ansel Adams 180 quotes

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