black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams

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

Collection Myself Thinking
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Believe Paint Photograph
A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Moments Negative Photograph
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
ANSEL ADAMS

Nature Reveal Simplicity Wild
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Believe Fate Future Myself People
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
ANSEL ADAMS

Emotion Emotional Existence Lake Sea Spiritual World
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 eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creative Development Eyes Hope Image Innovation Live Myself See Technology Trust
We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
ANSEL ADAMS

Love Photograph Reality Spirit Technique
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
ANSEL ADAMS

Act Art Love Music People Photograph Reading Yourself
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Oneself Photograph
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
ANSEL ADAMS

Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ansel Adams Quotes