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 expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.
art men expression
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.
art light expression
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.
art expression vivid
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
photography expression imagination
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
photography expression self
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
ask convey eyes move perceptive personal print reactions simply statement subject trust visualize
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?
meaningful feelings growing
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
photography destiny firsts
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
found-objects doubt world
I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
photography men giving
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
prosperity best-picture corners
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
photography believe assessment
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.