“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.” KnowsShouldMomentsCharacterQualityPracticeAwarenessImportanceResponsePhotographerObviousMediumsDedicationIntuitive Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” ImportantProblemQualityGroupsPoetMajorsIntentionVariousObjectivesJournalistAttributes Author:Ansel Adams
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.” HumanityQualityRecordsPhotographyAll ThingsPhotographSurfaceLatent Book:Ansel Adams: photographs Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“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.” MenWorldArtSpiritDifficultQualityDepthMoodRevelationsAggressiveGreat Art Book:Ansel Adams: photographs Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“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.” PersonsImaginationQualityExpressionProductsLimitsPhotographyMachines Author:Ansel Adams
“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.” ShouldHeartKindEarthQualityRocksIntimateCompellingTimelessFormationGrandeurYosemite Author:Ansel Adams
“All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.” WritingI CanFactsCertainTermCan DoQualityAmountScalesEtcPrintSharpness Author:Ansel Adams
“It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.” BeautifulQualitySunBreatheVery Beautiful Book:Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection Source: Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection
“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.” EarthExistenceQualityGrowingSkyPlanetsIntegrityMountainEssentialsReactionsContactGrowing Things Author:Ansel Adams
