"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?""
Ansel AdamsAll art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Ansel AdamsI believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
Ansel AdamsThe sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Ansel AdamsA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams