190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.