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 More Quotes by Ansel Adams More Quotes From Ansel Adams Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways. Ansel Adams dream heart past Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. Ansel Adams growing feelings meaningful In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams photography wisdom life I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. Ansel Adams sometimes looks art A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams photography photographer knowing Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Ansel Adams landscape photography disappointment There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word. Ansel Adams events giving art There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. Ansel Adams creativity photography inspirational A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams digital-photography photography photographer There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams photography ignorance art The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results. Ansel Adams machines gun photography Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. Ansel Adams men reality art You don't take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams photography inspirational art I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds. Ansel Adams stars soul heart 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 photographer spirit reality I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath. Ansel Adams found-objects doubt world To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print. Ansel Adams finals photography mind No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams confidence creativity men A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. Ansel Adams moments photography negative The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet. Ansel Adams quality sky integrity
