Author: Ansel Adams

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

- Ansel Adams

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

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

- Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

- Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

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

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

- Ansel Adams

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.

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.

- Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

- Ansel Adams

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

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

- Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

- Ansel Adams

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