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 9
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. 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
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
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
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
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. Ansel Adams American Photographer More Ansel Adams Quotes 0