Ansel Adams

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

— Ansel Adams

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.

— Ansel Adams

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

— Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

— Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

— Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

— Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art…

— Ansel Adams

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

— Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

— Ansel Adams

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

— Ansel Adams

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

— Ansel Adams

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

— Ansel Adams

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of…

— Ansel Adams

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for…

— Ansel Adams

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in…

— Ansel Adams

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection…

— Ansel Adams

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind…

— Ansel Adams

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that…

— Ansel Adams

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination…

— Ansel Adams

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to…

— Ansel Adams

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer…

— Ansel Adams

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition,…

— Ansel Adams

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at…

— Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and…

— Ansel Adams

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

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.…

— Ansel Adams

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

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries…

— Ansel Adams

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

— Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

— Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

— Ansel Adams

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

— Ansel Adams

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

— Ansel Adams