Ansel Adams Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ansel Adams on Wise Famous Quotes.
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.