Ansel Adams Quotes

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.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

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.

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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

Bad weather makes for good photography.

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

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

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

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

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

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.

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

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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

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

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

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

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