Ansel Adams Quotes

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

I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.