Re: Ansel Adams Thought

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From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 06/10/03-10:41:54 AM Z


You are correct John . . it offers us the opportunity to shatter the mirror
of bias we may hold in judging icons.
Jack

> I thought this was a bueatiful thought from Ansel Adams...;;
>
>
> "A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down
> over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me
> see many things that were drifting around inside me. Things that relate to
> those who are loved and those who are real friends. For the first time, I
> know what love is, what friends are, and what art should be. Love is a
> seeking for a way of life, a way that cannot be followed alone, a resonance
> of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love,
> more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of
> things, like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art
> is both love and friendship and understanding, the desire to give. It is not
> charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness, which is
> the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning
> out to the light of the awareness of the inner folds of the awareness of the
> spirit. It is a recreation on another plane of the realities of the
> world-the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men and of all the
> interrelations of these."
> Ansel Adams
>
> Regards,
> John Cremati
>


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