Ansel Adams: Quotes about life

Ansel Adams was American photographer and environmentalist. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Ansel Adams: 58 quotes14 likes

“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 Adams

"A Personal Credo" (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944), reprinted in Nathan Lyons, editor, Photographers on Photography (1966), reprinted in Vicki Goldberg, editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1988)

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”

Ansel Adams

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

Ansel Adams

“The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.”

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)