No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSNo man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSThe negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMSThe craft of photography is the key to good images.
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMSI don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMSOne of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMSYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMSThe quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMSThe only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMSI hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ANSEL ADAMSPhotography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS