Some things to think about...

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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.
Ansel Adams


Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
Ansel Adams


I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams


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


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


There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams


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


We don't make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.
Ansel Adams

CabanSail

Ansel Adams has some brilliant quotes.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams

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 good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

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

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

CabanSail

Edward Weston has quite a few good ones too.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Edward Weston


I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
Edward Weston

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston


Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston