The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMSSometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
-
-
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS -
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMS -
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMS -
One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
ANSEL ADAMS -
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
ANSEL ADAMS -
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
ANSEL ADAMS -
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMS -
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMS -
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS -
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS -
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS -
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS -
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS -
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 -
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
ANSEL ADAMS