Ansel Adams Quotes

I've been working with photography for many years.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

I wish I were a really good photographer.

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I had been teaching myself photography.

I never really learned photography.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.