black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

Ansel Adams

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”
ANSEL ADAMS

Greatness Honor Image
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
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.
ANSEL ADAMS

Collection Myself Thinking
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
ANSEL ADAMS

Build Confidence Creation Emotion Encouragement Men Reveal Spirit
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 quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
ANSEL ADAMS

Existence Growth Integrity Ourselves Place Quality Relationship Sky
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Believe Paint Photograph
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children…let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money…and once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
ANSEL ADAMS

Beautiful Children Destroy Leaving Money Ourselves Price
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Ignorance Image Photograph Worst
To 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 ADAMS

Image Mindset Photograph Visual
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
ANSEL ADAMS

Adventure Art Experience Mystery Nature Photograph Seek
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
ANSEL ADAMS

Destiny Experience Myself Photograph
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
ANSEL ADAMS

Art Myself Need
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
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Camera Goodness Photograph Rule
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

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ansel Adams Quotes