Ansel Adams Art Quotes & Sayings

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. — Ansel Adams

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness. — Chin-Ning Chu

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. — Ansel Adams

Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception. — Mark Klett

You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable. — Rob Harrell

Haskell whisked the pistol from his pocket and flipped open the barrel. It was empty. "You little--" Then Haskell barked a laugh and plucked the bullets from Kaz's hand, shaking his head. "You've got the devil's own blood in you, boy. Go get my money. — Leigh Bardugo

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams

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. — Ansel Adams

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. — Ansel Adams

If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue — Lisa Fantino

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

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. — Ansel Adams

It is the love in our hearts that we need to act on and not the false match made by our calculating brains. — Ritu Chowdhary

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it. — Julie London

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams

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

God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn. — Orson Scott Card

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' — Tim Cahill

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. — Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. — Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. — Ansel Adams

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. — Ansel Adams

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule. — Tim Cook

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Ansel Adams

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event ... I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word. — Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams

That's the thing, isn't it? About friendships. You don't know what he needs. You only know he needs it. — John Tiffany

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson. — Steve Fowler

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. — Ansel Adams

brethren without seek — Various

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. — William Eggleston

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. — Ansel Adams