To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — 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
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — 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
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
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. — 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
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
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
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'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
...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
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
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
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up. — 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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: 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
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — 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
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — 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
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
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
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — 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
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. — 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 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
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
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
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
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort. — Ansel Adams Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent… — Ansel Adams Copy Share
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