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🇺🇸Ansel Adams

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1902–1984

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

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

"Thomas Eakins Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

"In my life there are many silences…In my writing, too."

"AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself."

"When you see 300 people naked in Grand Central Station, or a river of flesh flowing through the beauty aisles of Selfridges department store, it makes you think about all sorts of social and political issues."

"If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned."

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

"Vernon Richards,from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia"

"The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures."

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."

"I have no complaints, except for the world."

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

"I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth."

"the official mortuary photographer of Eastern European Jewry. -- Leon Wieseltier, editor of The New Republic"

"Tim Marlow joins Anselm Kiefer to discuss his work on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at White Cube - June 2005"

"A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,... is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake."

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

"Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw."

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