I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the… — 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
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 respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. — 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
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
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