1. “Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.” ― Ansel Adams
2. “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” ― Ansel Adams
3. “We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.” ― Ansel Adams
4. “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
5. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” ― Ansel Adams
6. “A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.” ― Ansel Adams
7. “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
8. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams
9. “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
10. “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
11. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” ― Ansel Adams
12. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ― Ansel Adams
13. “Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” ― Ansel Adams
14. “Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.” ― Ansel Adams
15. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams
16. “A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looking into.” ― Ansel Adams
17. “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” ― Ansel Adams
18. “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
19. “The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” ― Ansel Adams
20. “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
21. “Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” ― Ansel Adams
22. “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” ― Ansel Adams
23. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
24. “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” ― Ansel Adams
25. “With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.” ― Ansel Adams
26. “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
27. “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” ― Ansel Adams
28. “Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” ― Ansel Adams
29. “Our lives at times seem a study in contrast… love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong… everything seen in absolutes of black & white. Too often we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.” ― Ansel Adams
30. “Bad weather makes for good photography.” ― Ansel Adams
31. “Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?” – Ansel Adams
32. “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.” ― Ansel Adams
33. “I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.” ― Ansel Adams
34. “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” ― Ansel Adams
35. “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” ― Ansel Adams
36. “A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” ― Ansel Adams
37. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” ― Ansel Adams