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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Any Crop Good Photographs Significant Twelve Year

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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

Topics: Ever Full Hold Just Just As Much Medium Much Must Photograph Possibilities Put Remember

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Affecting Been Boundaries Build Compelling Creation Destinies Fight Force Human Human Spirit Lived Men Millions Originality Palaces Profoundly Roots Shape Societies Spirit Times

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

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Click Get God Just Places Ready Shutter Somebody Sometimes

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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

Topics: Intention Intuitive May Meaning Medium Natural Natural World Observations Photography Present Spectators Through Which World

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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Looked Photograph Seldom

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

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Comparable Composer Differs Each Negative Performance Print Score Subtle Ways

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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

Topics: Aggressive Art Beyond Define Depths Difficult Equally Experience Grasp Great Great Art History Man Moods Nature Only Our Perceptive Qualities Revelations Science Spirit Them World Worlds

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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Creative Exists Grand Human Human Spirit Life My Life Only Spirit Things Universe Works

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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

Topics: Again Alley Am Any Aware Captured Dry Images In Print Intensely Live Looking Me Old Out People Plates Print Rooms Seem Sheds Sixty Standing Turn Walking Were Windows Workshops Years Years Ago I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: February 20th, 1902

Died: April 22nd, 1984

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