Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adamswas an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth20 February 1902
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Ansel Adams quotes about
photography attention literature
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
inspirational photography art
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
integrity sky quality
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
nature woods today
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
children legacy splendid
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
beautiful nature believe
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
photography important twelve
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
life wisdom photography
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
photography art believe
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
space sunrise valleys
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
photography art book
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
american-photographer brilliant fuzzy image worse
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
autumn high
Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,
creative exist grand human life universe works
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.