There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams More Quotes by Ansel Adams More Quotes From Ansel Adams All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is. Ansel Adams etc quality writing The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us. Ansel Adams rocks quality heart It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair. Ansel Adams photography giving men The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life. Ansel Adams intense-moments cameras people We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." Ansel Adams photography honor interesting A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels... Ansel Adams photography photographer expression The negative is the score, and the print the performance. Ansel Adams score photography negative I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium. Ansel Adams dedication practice character This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. Ansel Adams photography literature attention 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. Ansel Adams quality photography humanity Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. Ansel Adams destiny fighting men We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere. Ansel Adams erosion games men I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt. Ansel Adams saws levels would-be Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. Ansel Adams empathy photography attitude With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. Ansel Adams vivid expression art The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect. Ansel Adams gratitude photography appreciation I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning. Ansel Adams temperature eye heaven 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 without. Ansel Adams eye photography thinking Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. Ansel Adams light giving art I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold. Ansel Adams mold fit thinking
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