black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMS

God Myself Photograph Place
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS

Explanation Need Photograph True Word
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Photograph Technology
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 one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
ANSEL ADAMS

Expression Feeling Greatness Photograph
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
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

Art Difference Negative Performance Way
I 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 ADAMS

Believe Environment Life Myself
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
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

Collection Myself Thinking
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

Beautiful Breathe Live Magic Quality Sun Yourself
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
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ansel Adams Quotes