The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
Ansel AdamsThis profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Ansel AdamsWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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 AdamsThe whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
Ansel Adams