You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

- Ansel Adams

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

- Ansel Adams

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

- Ansel Adams

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

- Ansel Adams

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

- Ansel Adams

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

- Ansel Adams

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

- Ansel Adams

Bad weather makes for good photography.

- Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

- Ansel Adams