Quotes by Ansel Adams about Opinion

11 quotes by Ansel Adams about opinion

Ansel Adams American Photographer

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural...

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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.

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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and...

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

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The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, ...

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

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There are always two people in every picture: the...

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy...

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy...

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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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...

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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.

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