Ansel Adams Quotes About Giving

• It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

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  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

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• 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.

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  Andrea Gray Stillman, Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams, American Place (Gallery), University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1982). “Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936”, Center for Creative Photography

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• 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.

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