Ansel Adams Quotes: top 83 famous quotes about Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams Quotes & Sayings

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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. — Ansel Adams

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. — Ansel Adams

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire. — Ansel Adams

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski

The camera cannot, but the photographer can. — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. — Ansel Adams

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras. — Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams

Notebook. No photographer should be without one! — Ansel Adams

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer — Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams: "It is horrifying that we must fight our own government in order to save the environment. — Jo Marshall

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value ... — Ansel Adams

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity. — Ansel Adams

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level. — Ansel Adams

Bad weather makes for good photography. — Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. — Joe McNally

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. — Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. — Ansel Adams

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel. — Ansel Adams

You don't take a picture, you make a picture. — Ansel Adams

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. — Ansel Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. — Ansel Adams

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

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp. — Vilmos Zsigmond

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. — Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. — Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams

The craft of photography is the key to good images. — Ansel Adams

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand. — Paul Strand

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life. — Ansel Adams

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. — Ansel Adams

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams

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

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. — Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams

My wife - she could help me get the negs out! — Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.. — Ansel Adams

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. — Ansel Adams

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. — Ansel Adams

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. — Ansel Adams

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. — Ansel Adams

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! — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams said, "Twelve significant photographs in one year is a good crop. — Jason Youn

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. — Ansel Adams

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Ansel Adams

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. — Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams