Ansel Adams Quotes

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice ...

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people...

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both...

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond sc...

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is b...

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with signific...

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment...

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

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

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of ...

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it ex...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures...

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; bu...