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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly...

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Originality | Clicks: 728 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Truth | Clicks: 311 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built...

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 341 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

To 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.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 672 | Rank: 0 | Fav

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and...

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 314 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 302 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 391 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult...

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 315 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 1382 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 747 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 320 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 301 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 334 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: God | Clicks: 320 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 672 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 314 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 337 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 681 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly...

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Originality | Clicks: 325 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Author: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) | Theme: Art | Clicks: 1150 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav
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