I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art… — 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
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
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of… — 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
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of… — 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 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
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
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — 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
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 is difficult… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
