Best Ansel Adams Sayings
- A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. Accident
- The negative is the score, and the print the performance. Negative
- A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. Accident
- We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." Greater
- A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. Expression
- No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your… Core
- Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price Any
- I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade… Aging
- There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make… All
- To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. Beneath
- With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. All
- The camera cannot, but the photographer can. Camera
- The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Creative
- One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. Basket
- I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative… Continue
- It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Camera
- The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… Detail
- I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree,… Affirmation
- I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own… Advance
- For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen.… Beautiful
- The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass… Casually
- The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious… Approach
- My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. All
- Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. Clarify
- I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. Art
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