To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value... — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort. — Ansel Adams Copy Share
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
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… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
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 Copy Share
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
