“We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.” PeopleKnowsMenSpiritGamesIndividualSolitudeTragedyFishesNobleForestsSoilWildernessCatastropheShrinkingErosionUnforgivable Author:Ansel Adams
“I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.” KnowsWorldHeartSoulSpiritStarsMountainInvestingComrade Book:Ansel Adams: Divine Performance Source: Ansel Adams: Divine Performance
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” MenShouldSpiritEmotionCreativityCreativeProducePerspectiveConfidencePerceptionPerceiveSelf ExpressionBe EncouragedNo ConfidenceBuilding ConfidenceDictatingCreative SpiritPerception Of Others Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” RealitySpiritInstrumentsPhotographerPhotographRevelationsDomination Book:Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963 Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963
“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.” MenHumansHas BeensSpiritFightingForceDestinyMillionsCreationShapesRootsBoundariesAll TimeOriginalityCompellingHuman SpiritPalaces Author:Ansel Adams
“The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.” LifeHumansSpiritUniverseNatureCreativeHuman SpiritCreative Work Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” MenWorldArtSpiritDifficultQualityDepthMoodRevelationsAggressiveGreat Art Book:Ansel Adams: photographs Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.” GivingArtLightSpiritAwarenessArt IsFolds Book:Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936 Source: Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936
“The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.” ThinkingMindUseSpiritNextPicksMiracleCamerasInstrumentsExcitementNext TimeRobotsFlexible Author:Ansel Adams
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.” MenWorldGivingArtRealityLightEarthSpiritWonderfulAwarenessArt IsRelationPlanesTragicFoldsRecreation Author:Ansel Adams
“All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.” MenWorldArtSpiritExpressionArt IsRelation Author:Ansel Adams
