Ansel Adams

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense,...”

“When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is...”

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

“The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.”

“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.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

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

“A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.”

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”