black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Ansel Adams

I 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 ADAMS

Beautiful Encouragement Excitement Expression Greatness Hope Myself Photograph Search World
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS

Communication Expression Photograph Powerful
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS

Inspirational People Photograph View
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Heart Love Myself Relationship Soul Spirit Stars World
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Believe Paint Photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Inspirational Photograph Yourself
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
ANSEL ADAMS

Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

Care Establishment God Mistake Photograph Relationship
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Easy Photograph
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Easy Heart Life Smile World Yourself
Bad weather makes for good photography.
ANSEL ADAMS

Bad Climate Goodness Photograph
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
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
ANSEL ADAMS

Leaving Light Nature Quiet
Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
ANSEL ADAMS

Feeling Growth Potential Remember See Yourself

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ansel Adams Quotes