There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, people
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.Quote by Ansel Adams about art, rules, good, good luck
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...Quote by Ansel Adams about philosophy, revelation, science, experience, history, art, magic, nature, spirit, world
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing
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...Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people
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.Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, humanity, nature, things
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...Quote by Ansel Adams about art, word
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.Quote by Ansel Adams about truth, concentration, silence, word