Ansel Adams quote: "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."

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it...
ANSEL ADAMS

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that t...
ANSEL ADAMS

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

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it...
ANSEL ADAMS

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
ANSEL ADAMS

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond sc...
ANSEL ADAMS

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; bu...
ANSEL ADAMS

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates o...
ANSEL ADAMS

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
ANSEL ADAMS

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
ANSEL ADAMS

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...
ANSEL ADAMS

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...
ANSEL ADAMS

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice ...
ANSEL ADAMS

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of...
ANSEL ADAMS

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMS

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the na...
ANSEL ADAMS

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
ANSEL ADAMS

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of pe...
ANSEL ADAMS

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment...
ANSEL ADAMS

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
ANSEL ADAMS

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

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

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...
ANSEL ADAMS

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS

Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others ...
ANSEL ADAMS

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performanc...
ANSEL ADAMS

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
ANSEL ADAMS

If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph woul...
ANSEL ADAMS

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of ...
ANSEL ADAMS

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is b...
ANSEL ADAMS

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of ...
ANSEL ADAMS

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others...
ANSEL ADAMS

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
ANSEL ADAMS

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each perfor...
ANSEL ADAMS

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
ANSEL ADAMS

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convict...
ANSEL ADAMS

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

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning tha...
ANSEL ADAMS

'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two peop...
ANSEL ADAMS

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...
ANSEL ADAMS

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If i...
ANSEL ADAMS

The best master printer
ANSEL ADAMS

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
ANSEL ADAMS

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people...
ANSEL ADAMS

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures...
ANSEL ADAMS

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer
ANSEL ADAMS

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
ANSEL ADAMS

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
ANSEL ADAMS

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it ex...
ANSEL ADAMS

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
ANSEL ADAMS

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
ANSEL ADAMS

Our lives at times seem a study in contrast... love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong... everythi...
ANSEL ADAMS

I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I go out into the world and hope I will come acr...
ANSEL ADAMS

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wo...
ANSEL ADAMS

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both...
ANSEL ADAMS

The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of ...
ANSEL ADAMS

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever appr...
ANSEL ADAMS

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in sil...
ANSEL ADAMS

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to...
ANSEL ADAMS

Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,
ANSEL ADAMS

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is...
ANSEL ADAMS

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.
ANSEL ELGORT

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowaday...
ANSEL ELGORT

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful...
ANSEL ELGORT

When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstag...
ANSEL ELGORT

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
ANSEL ELGORT

The club scene is terrible.
ANSEL ELGORT

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and...
ANSEL ELGORT

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
ANSEL ELGORT

The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theate...
ANSEL ELGORT

In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
ANSEL ELGORT

It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to ...
ANSEL ELGORT

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood a...
ANSEL ELGORT

I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.
ANSEL ELGORT

I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.
ANSEL ELGORT

I'm just such a good kisser.
ANSEL ELGORT

James Dean was always a tortured soul.
ANSEL ELGORT

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole pla...
ANSEL ELGORT

I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. ...
ANSEL ELGORT

I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a m...
ANSEL ELGORT

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even ...
ANSEL ELGORT

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he...
ANSEL ELGORT

My style is clubby and groovy - you can jump to it, but you don't just have to just jump to it. ...
ANSEL ELGORT

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about y...
ANSEL ELGORT

Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not j...
ANSEL ELGORT

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. Yo...
ANSEL ELGORT

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
ANSEL ELGORT

I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was jus...
ANSEL ELGORT

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
YOLANDA ADAMS

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
YOLANDA ADAMS

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of G...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I wou...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
YOLANDA ADAMS

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do some...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anythi...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University o...
YOLANDA ADAMS

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something differ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information a...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop...
YOLANDA ADAMS

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i...
YOLANDA ADAMS

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband o...
YOLANDA ADAMS

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whateve...
YOLANDA ADAMS

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a soun...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a...
YOLANDA ADAMS

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that yo...
YOLANDA ADAMS

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
SCOTT ADAMS

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...
SCOTT ADAMS

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don...
SCOTT ADAMS

I get mail; therefore I am.
SCOTT ADAMS

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with...
SCOTT ADAMS

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...
SCOTT ADAMS

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryo...
SANDY ADAMS

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...
SAMUEL ADAMS

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know wh...
PATCH ADAMS

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really ...
BRYAN ADAMS

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
BRYAN ADAMS

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, w...
BRYAN ADAMS

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
BRYAN ADAMS

I never had a long-term plan.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'm a complete and utter busker.
BRYAN ADAMS

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wan...
BRYAN ADAMS

I moonlight as a singer.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it&...
BRYAN ADAMS

I pack every minute I can with something to do.
BRYAN ADAMS

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
BRYAN ADAMS

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the botto...
BRYAN ADAMS

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's ...
BRYAN ADAMS

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS

I like the idea of helping people help people.
BRYAN ADAMS

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&...
BRYAN ADAMS

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter....
BRYAN ADAMS

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sen...
BRYAN ADAMS

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
BRYAN ADAMS

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my hea...
BRYAN ADAMS

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas...
BRYAN ADAMS

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media...
BRYAN ADAMS

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on havin...
BRYAN ADAMS

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
BRYAN ADAMS

Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
PATCH ADAMS

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We ...
PATCH ADAMS

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn'...
PATCH ADAMS

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any...
PATCH ADAMS

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. Tha...
PATCH ADAMS

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything a...
PATCH ADAMS

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be...
PATCH ADAMS

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compa...
PATCH ADAMS

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
PATCH ADAMS

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our societ...
PATCH ADAMS

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.

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Ansel Adams

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.

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