I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — 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
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. — 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
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” — 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
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your… — 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
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
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
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and… — 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
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
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not… — 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
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
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
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
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — 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
