The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
Ansel AdamsTo 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.
Ansel AdamsA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel AdamsImage 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.
Ansel Adams