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Ansel Adams Quotes about Reality

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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

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.

Ansel Adams
Art, Reality, Men

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
Reality, Spirit, Photographer
Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

Ansel Adams
Beautiful, Dream, Reality
Radio interview, 1972.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Ansel Adams
Photography, Art, Reality
"Photography's Ardent Proselytizer" by Andy Grundberg, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1984.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

Ansel Adams
Photography, Black And White, Reality
Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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