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 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 in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams spinning-plates photography years I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence. Ansel Adams life-and-death self men Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams care photography mistake Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . Ansel Adams design self art The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. Ansel Adams nature creative life Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine. Ansel Adams black-and-white photography reality I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction. Ansel Adams matter may firsts We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman. Ansel Adams serendipity wind moving The camera cannot, but the photographer can. Ansel Adams cameras photographer Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Ansel Adams twelve photography years 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 eye photography practice The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Adams way negative art The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood. Ansel Adams rocks ocean feelings I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Ansel Adams critics art needs A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. Ansel Adams accidents photography photographer It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. Ansel Adams photography easy art I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation. Ansel Adams photography overcoming winning I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence. Ansel Adams taken past fall Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. Ansel Adams blazing photography real The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity. Ansel Adams best-picture corners prosperity
