190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

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

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching-there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.