Ansel Adams Quotes

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals to support my music.