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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
Margaret Bourke-White1904–1971
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
A photograph is usually looked at⁠—seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
Isabel Allendeborn 1942Of Love and Shadows (1984)
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Ansel Adams1902–1984“A Personal Credo” (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944)