“In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.” Quote by Ansel Adams
“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.” FirstsMayMatterFoundToo MuchConcernEdgesReactionsRecognitionConventionalComposition Author:Ansel Adams
“Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.” FeelingsRememberAsksGrowingSeeingMeaningfulCoincidence Author:Ansel Adams
“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.” RealitySeemsPastFallDecisionExistenceSituationVisionTakenStrangeAdvantageResponseIntuitionConvincedMoodRecognitionLogicalSignificanceSuspicionVentureStrainSequenceMy PastPast LifeImmediacyRetrospectiveNew Ventures Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” WritingPhotographySpectators Author:Ansel Adams
“I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.” IfsFirstsDirectInevitableTrendsVietnamConfrontation Author:U Thant
“There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.” YouthGrievanceAgitation Book:POINTS OF REBELLION Source: POINTS OF REBELLION
“The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.” ConscienceConstitutionCourtKeepers Author:William O. Douglas
“Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.” MenWholeUniverseStarsSecretWindHillsTunes Author:William O. Douglas
“The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.” EarthNationsGoalMetsProtocolKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Al Gore
“I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.” UsedCasesMilitaryFootballNuclearAll TimeOfficersSuitcases Author:Al Gore