14 Quotes by Ansel Adams about art
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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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.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
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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.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
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