Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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!

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

To 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
Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

There 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
Ansel Adams

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.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

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.