Ansel Adams Quotes - Page 6

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• 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 them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Spiritual, Reflection

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• All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

  Ansel Adams

  Writing, Quality, Etc

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• Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

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• 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 all things.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Humanity, Quality

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Men, Giving

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• 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 true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

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• The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

  Ansel Adams

  Negative, Score, Composer

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• I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Heaven, Temperature

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• In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Abstract

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• ...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Knowing, Cameras

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• The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

  Ansel Adams

  Intense Moments, People, Cameras

  Andrea Gray Stillman, Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams, American Place (Gallery), University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1982). “Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936”, Center for Creative Photography

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

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• I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dust, Cameras

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

  Ansel Adams

  Artist, World, Comfort

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• 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

  Photography, Art, School

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• I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Writing, Spectators

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Past, Vision

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• We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

  Ansel Adams

  Earth, May, Sake

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• My wife - she could help me get the negs out!

  Ansel Adams

  Wife, Helping, Help Me

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• While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

  Ansel Adams

  New York, Taken, Color

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  Important, Quality, Groups

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• I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Thinking, Gone

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Communication, Language

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