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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

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.

Ansel Adams
Art, Giving, Events

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.

Ansel Adams
Art, Light, Giving
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

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.

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

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