01c. 1943 ADIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
02c. 1943 ADSometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
03c. 1943 ADNo 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1943 ADBoth 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1943 ADWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
06c. 1943 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1943 ADA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
09c. 1943 ADA 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.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
12c. 1943 ADIt is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
13c. 1943 ADI have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
14c. 1943 ADTo the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
15c. 1943 ADThere are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
17c. 1943 ADLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
18c. 1943 ADThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!Ansel Adams / quote ↗
19c. 1943 ADPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
20c. 1943 ADYosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
21c. 1943 ADThere are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
22c. 1943 ADTo photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.Ansel Adams / quote ↗
24c. 1943 ADIn 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 / quote ↗
