Ansel Adams Photography Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Ansel Adams Photography

Ansel Adams Photography 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bad weather makes for good photography. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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