There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 66
Notebook. No photographer should be without one! Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 8
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 7
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 6
You don't take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 6
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 4
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 3
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 3
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 3
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 3
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 2
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 1
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 1
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
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 American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
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 American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
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 American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0