Quotes by Ansel Adams

About Ansel Adams:

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.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

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

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...

Ansel Adams

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

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

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

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

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

Ansel Adams

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

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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.

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

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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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnsel Adams
  • DescriptionAmerican photographer and environmentalist
  • BornFebruary 20, 1902
  • DiedApril 22, 1984
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhotographer; Pianist; Writer; Mountaineer
  • WorksMoonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Hasselblad Award; Presidential Medal Of Freedom