Quates on Photography

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. -Ansel Adams

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. -Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. -Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it. -Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. -Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. -Ansel Adams, "Photographing Nature: LIFE Library of Photography" by Time-Life (Editor)

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. -Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams

A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. -Ansel Adams

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. -Francis Bacon

I use photography as a point of departure. Like Frederick Sommer, I prefer to view a photograph as "a thing seen" in its own right, rather than considering it as a document of "a thing seen." This is a disengagement from viewing a photograph for its content alone. An image has its own reason for being, perhaps possessing its own kind of intelligence. -Jonathan Bailey , in Camera Arts Feb/March 2001.

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting. -Amanda Caldwell

Everything has it's beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius

The most important attribute a photographer can have is enthusiasm. -Arnold Drapkin, "Professional photographer's survival guide" by Charles E. Rotkin

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. -Peter Adams, Adams Sydney, 1987

Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. -Peter Adams, Sydney 1978