A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — 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
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
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
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
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 true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial… — 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
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and… — 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
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
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
“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
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — 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
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
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
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
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 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
