Ansel Adams Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Believe

• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Photography

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

• 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

  Music, Photography, Art

• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

• 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

  Photography, Photographer, Remember

• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Knowing, Photographer

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

• A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Needs, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Ignorance

• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Digital Photography

• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Twelve

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

• A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Accidents

• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

• I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Soul

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

• 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

• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Communication

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

• 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

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

• I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Simple, Effort

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

• 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, Art, Easy

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