Quotes by Ansel Adams

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

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

“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 ...”

“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search ...”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“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.”

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

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”

“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.”

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

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

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

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

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

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

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

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