Famous Ansel Adams Quotes


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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially of Yosemite National Park.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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