Ansel Adams Quotes

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

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

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

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

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

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.