"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 up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Ansel Adams

• "A good photograph is knowing where to stand. "
• "A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, ..."
• "A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. "
• "A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. "
• "Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive ..."
• "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal ..."
• "I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I ..."
• "I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is ..."
• "I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while ..."
• "In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on ..."
• "In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of ..."
• "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of ..."
• "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. "
• "It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations ..."
• "Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. "
• "Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; ..."
• "Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. "
• "Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "
• "Notebook. No photographer should be without one! "
• "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative ..."
• "Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, ..."

• "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own ..."
• "Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come ..."
• "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the ..."
• "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each ..."
• "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. "
• "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. "
• "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and ..."
• "There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. "
• "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "
• "There's nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. "
• "These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on ..."
• "To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities ..."
• "Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. "
• "We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into ..."
• "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall ..."
• "Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder ..."
• "You don't take a photograph, you make it. "