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 More Quotes by Ansel Adams More Quotes From Ansel Adams Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas. Ansel Adams woods nature today I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life. Ansel Adams degrees artist believe The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. Ansel Adams photographer artist adventure The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with. Ansel Adams miracle mind thinking Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams communication photography art I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. Ansel Adams next artist believe We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't. Ansel Adams religious spiritual beautiful 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 quality men art We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. Ansel Adams photography photographer remember It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. Ansel Adams quality sun beautiful To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. Ansel Adams latent surface photographer We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Ansel Adams fabric sometimes moving It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself. Ansel Adams light expression art Notebook. No photographer should be without one! Ansel Adams notebook photography photographer The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value. Ansel Adams gadgets accessories photography 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 photography soul art Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams communication powerful photography 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 photography may world The craft of photography is the key to good images. Ansel Adams crafts photography keys I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams effort photography simple
