Ansel Adams

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

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.

I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

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.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.