Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams More Quotes by Ansel Adams More 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. Ansel Adams music photography art 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. Ansel Adams splendid legacy children It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams government fighting nature I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. Ansel Adams nature beautiful believe Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel. Ansel Adams photograph feels It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Ansel Adams cameras photography photographer Bad weather makes for good photography. Ansel Adams good-photography photography weather When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams creativity photography inspirational 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 sunrise green space I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. Ansel Adams fate air believe Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price Ansel Adams conservation environmental nature I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop. Ansel Adams innovation eye creative A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams photography photographer needs Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams photography believe art 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. Ansel Adams eye museums art Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature. Ansel Adams light spiritual fall The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! Ansel Adams cameras important photography How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level. Ansel Adams levels photography world 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. Ansel Adams photography expression self There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams cameras photography photographer
