190 Quotes by Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

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.

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

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

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