Quote

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ansel Adams
Age: 82 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 20
Died: 1984
Died: April 22
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Photographer
Pianist
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Ansel Easton Adams
Ansel Easton Adams II
Ansel E. Adams
Moments
Accidents
Concept
Exists
Photograph
Concepts
Photography
Negative
Exposure
Moment
Accident

More quotes by Ansel Adams

Image
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
Ansel Adams
Image
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
Ansel Adams
Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams
Image
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams
Image
I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams
Image
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
Ansel Adams
Image
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
Ansel Adams
Image
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
Image
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
Image
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
Image
Bad weather makes for good photography.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
Image
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Image
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams
Image
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
Ansel Adams
Image
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.
Ansel Adams
Image
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Ansel Adams