Composer Quote by Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

— Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

— Ansel Adams

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of…

— W. Eugene Smith

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

— Matthew Modine

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines…

— Catherine Marshall

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

— Drake

Workin with the negatives can make for better pictures.

— Drake

Life is like photography. We use negatives to deveolpe.

— Camilia

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying…

— Godfrey Reggio

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original…

— David Fincher

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

— Ansel Adams