Quotes from 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.

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

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

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

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

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

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.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

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

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

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

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

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.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.