The negative is the equivalent of the composer's s... -Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams , Photographer
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Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist known for his iconic black-and-white landscape photographs, particularly of the American West, including Yosemite National Park. Adams' work exhibited a deep appreciation for the natural world and a commitment to capturing its beauty and preserving it for future generations. His technical mastery, use of light and shadow, and meticulous darkroom techniques elevated landscape photography to an art form and left a lasting impact on the medium.

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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration....
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perception...
A good photograph is knowing where to stand....
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships....
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter....
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space....
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed....
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a go...
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 r...
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art....

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...