“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — 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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — 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
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable… — 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 do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! — 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
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — 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
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 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 great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — 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
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — 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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