The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. Ansel Adams More Quotes by Ansel Adams More Quotes From Ansel Adams The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity. Ansel Adams best-picture corners prosperity Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams heroic struggle world The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams etching photography creative You don't make a photograph just with a camera Ansel Adams cameras photography photographer No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. Ansel Adams climbing nature work 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. Ansel Adams photography imagination expression A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams photography photographer feels As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence. Ansel Adams emotional spiritual lakes "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"" Ansel Adams photography dream moving One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket. Ansel Adams pieces important want If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. Ansel Adams chance photograph mind I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. Ansel Adams destiny photography firsts Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him. Ansel Adams helping discovery world The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream. Ansel Adams dream beautiful reality The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty. Ansel Adams unions knowing earth My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize. Ansel Adams depends last-words lasts The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro. Ansel Adams glowing land sky We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow. Ansel Adams light yellow wind For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions. Ansel Adams handsome would-be beautiful The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black. Ansel Adams eight keys play
