190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

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

Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth’s sake.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer’s concept.

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography – therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.