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
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” — 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
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection… — 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
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — 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
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
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — 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
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up. — 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
