Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel AdamsSome photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel AdamsPhotography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
Ansel AdamsI 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.
Ansel AdamsWe all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
Ansel Adams