Ansel Adams

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies…

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense…

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce…

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs…

You don’t take a photograph, you make it…

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal…

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the…

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and…

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

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder…

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of…

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities…

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

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

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world…