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

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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.

Ansel Adams

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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Ansel Adams

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Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

Ansel Adams

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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Ansel Adams

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Bad weather makes for good photography.

Ansel Adams

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

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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

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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

Ansel Adams

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Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Ansel Adams

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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

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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

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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Ansel Adams

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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

Ansel Adams

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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

Ansel Adams

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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Ansel Adams

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