Ansel Adams on photography

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

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

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.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

Pablo Picasso1881–1973

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Margaret Bourke-White1904–1971

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Isabel Allendeborn 1942Of Love and Shadows (1984)