The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — 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
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
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
“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
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — 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
