quotes by Ansel Adams

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
— Ansel Adams

"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

"To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer."
— Ansel Adams

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

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— Ansel Adams

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

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
— Ansel Adams

"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

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

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— Ansel Adams

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

"A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into."
— Ansel Adams

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
— Ansel Adams

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
— Ansel Adams

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. "
— Ansel Adams

"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 for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him."
— Ansel Adams

"I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence."
— Ansel Adams

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
— Ansel Adams

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