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 ADAMSYou 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 ADAMSThe only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMSTo visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.
ANSEL ADAMSI think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMSThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
ANSEL ADAMSOne of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMSNot everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMSIt is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
ANSEL ADAMSA great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
ANSEL ADAMSWe make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMSThe best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMSI believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
ANSEL ADAMSWe must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
ANSEL ADAMSA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS