Ansel Adams
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.Collection: Eye
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.Collection: Photography
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.Collection: Photography
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.Collection: Intense Moments
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.Collection: Beautiful
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.Collection: Photography
I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!Collection: Photography
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.Collection: Photography
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.Collection: Photography
We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.Collection: Earth
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.Collection: Fall
My wife - she could help me get the negs out!Collection: Wife
While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.Collection: New York
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.Collection: Important
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.Collection: Photography
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.Collection: Artist
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.Collection: Photography
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.Collection: Character
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.Collection: Photography
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.Collection: Believe
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.Collection: Photography
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.Collection: Men
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.Collection: Cameras
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.Collection: Photography
I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.Collection: Thinking
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""Collection: Photography
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.Collection: Technique
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.Collection: Moving
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .Collection: Art
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.Collection: Art
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.Collection: Photography
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.Collection: Spiritual
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.Collection: Country
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.Collection: Knowing
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.Collection: Art
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.Collection: Fall
My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.Collection: Lasts
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.Collection: Art
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.Collection: Art
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.Collection: Photography
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.Collection: Art
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.Collection: Photography
The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.Collection: Heart
We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.Collection: Light
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.Collection: Photography
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.Collection: Men
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.Collection: Desire
For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.Collection: Beautiful
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.Collection: Beautiful