190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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

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

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.