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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
American Photographer
Born: Feb 20, 1902
Died: Apr 22, 1984
Art Creative Good Me Nature Photography
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
Environmental Government Fight Own Our Horrifying Environment Save
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams
Good Photograph Knowing Where Stand
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams
Photograph Seldom Looked
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams
Silence Words Focus Become Photographs Shall Unclear Content Inadequate Images
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams
Words Photograph True Contained Nor Explained Need
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams
God Sometimes Somebody Click Ready Get Just Places Shutter
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
Wisdom Time Experience Brainy Every Over Form Exploration Found Gathered
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
Photography Perception Interpretation Medium Variety Powerful Powerful Medium Execution Offers Infinite Communications Expression
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams
Art People Believe Everybody Photographs Trusts Paintings
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams
God Care Made Mistakes Relationships Take Take Care Steps Dodging Establishing Burning Tonal
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams
Art Creative Photography Communication Medium More Factual Ideas Than
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 and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams
Man Confidence Creative Emotions Men Build Other Spirit Perceive Perceptions Reveal Encouraged Dictate Themselves Produce Create Should Creative Spirit Right
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. Ansel Adams
Nature Me Sunrise Space Valley Vast Glitter Edifice Always Wonder Green Stone Yosemite Golden
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Adams
Negative Ways Composer Performance Print Score Subtle Comparable Each Differs
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams
Art Great Nature History Man Science Experience World Aggressive Difficult Great Art Worlds Our Define Moods Spirit Only Perceptive Beyond Qualities Equally Revelations Them Depths Grasp
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams
Truth World Heroic Comprehend Struggles Myths Creeds
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Ansel Adams
Photography Natural World Medium Intuitive Through Observations May Intention Which Meaning Natural World Present Spectators
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. Ansel Adams
Negative Composer Performance Print Equivalent Score
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams
Me People Old Looking Live Out Windows Seem Alley Sheds Dry Print Am Were Years Years Ago Walking Intensely Any Sixty In Print Again Turn Rooms Standing Workshops Plates Captured Aware Images
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 of the medium. Ansel Adams
Remember Medium Possibilities Photograph Must No-One Put Just Just As Much Hold Much Full Ever

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