The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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