Ansel Adams Quotes

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

Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

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, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Ansel Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Ansel Adams