black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Beautiful Generosity Light Spirit
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Value
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
ANSEL ADAMS

Elegant Silence Talk Yourself
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

Accident Mistake Photograph
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMS

Goodness Photograph Position
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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph See Truth
We 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 ADAMS

Ability Photograph Possible Remember
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
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
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Creation Existence Human Life Nature Spirit
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photograph Poetry Reality
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Fine Music Myself Photograph
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

Experience Exploration Life Photograph Time Wisdom
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ansel Adams Quotes