安塞尔·亚当斯语录

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images

become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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

environment.

 A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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

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

about what is being photographed.

 Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

 I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera

does not exprethe soul, perhaps a photograph can!

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

shutter.

 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.

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

 In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a

print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

 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 workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

 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 to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

 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