190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one’s eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

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

My wife – she could help me get the negs out!

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

It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.

Every experience is a form of exploration.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.

A photograph is usually looked at ? seldom looked into.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunshine, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.