Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books... (wikipedia)
Ansel Adams — American Photographer born on February 20, 1902, died on April 22, 1984
Ansel Adams Quotes
#Quote 1: In a strict sense, photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
#Quote 2:. How high your awareness level determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
#Quote 3: I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
#Quote 4: 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.
#Quote 5: 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.
#Quote 6: No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
#Quote 7: There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You, as an artist, create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event.
#Quote 8: We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
#Quote 9: To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
#Quote 10: Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation.
#Quote 11: Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
#Quote 12. 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.
#Quote 13. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
#Quote 14. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
#Quote 15. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
#Quote 16. Ask yourself: “Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?
#Quote 17. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
#Quote 18. Sometimes, I arrive just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
#Quote 19. It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
#Quote 20. I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into a logical sequence.
#Quote 21 Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
#Quote 22. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
#Quote 23. I never know in advance what I will photograph… I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath.
#Quote 24. I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
#Quote 25. Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
#Quote 26. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
#Quote 27. I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
#Quote 28. Bad weather makes for good photography.
#Quote 29. Notebook. No photographer should be without one.
#Quote 30. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
#Quote 31. I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
#Quote 32. Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communication, offers an infinite variety of perceptions, interpretations and execution.
#Quote 33. 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.
#Quote 34. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
#Quote 35. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
#Quote 36. Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?
#Quote 37. A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
#Quote 38. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
#Quote 39. Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
#Quote 40. When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
#Quote 41. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
#Quote 42. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
#Quote 43. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
#Quote 44. I believe there is nothing more disturbing than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept!
#Quote 45. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
#Quote 46. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
#Quote 47. It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
#Quote 48. Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
#Quote 49. Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
#Quote 50. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
#Quote 51. It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
#Quote 52. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
#Quote 53. Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
#Quote 54. The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
#Quote 55. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
#Quote 56. We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
#Quote 57. The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
#Quote 58. 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
#Quote 59. Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
#Quote 61. When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
#Quote 62. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
#Quote 63. To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
#Quote 64. 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.
#Quote 65. 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.
#Quote 66. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
#Quote 67. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
#Quote 68. Sometimes, I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
#Quote 69. one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white… in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
#Quote 70. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
#Quote 71. I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
#Quote 72. Our lives at times seem a study in contrast… love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong… everything seen in absolutes of black & white. Too often, we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.
#Quote 73. In some photographs, the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things…It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators…
#Quote 74. I never know in advance what I will photograph, … I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will continue to make photographs till my last breath.
#Quote 75. No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being
#Quote 76. These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
#Quote 77. Notebook. No photographer should be without one.