No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel AdamsI believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Ansel AdamsI can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
Ansel AdamsThe โmachine-gunโ approach to photography โ by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good โ is fatal to serious results.
Ansel Adams