190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

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.

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.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

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.

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.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.