190 Quotes by Ansel Adams
"This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture."
"I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief."
"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."
"The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good."
"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."
"To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self."
"Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price."
"I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder."
"A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative."