190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.

To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

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

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

I can’t verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

We make images to “honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.”

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