Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.