The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
ANSEL ADAMSA photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
More Ansel Adams Quotes
-
-
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 -
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
ANSEL ADAMS -
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
ANSEL ADAMS -
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 -
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
ANSEL ADAMS -
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS -
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
ANSEL ADAMS -
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
ANSEL ADAMS -
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
ANSEL ADAMS -
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 -
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS -
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
ANSEL ADAMS -
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMS -
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
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