#photo

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

— Ansel Adams

#make #photograph #take #you

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

— Ansel Adams

#art #creative #creative art #factual #ideas

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

— Ansel Adams

#explained #need #nor #photograph #true

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#intuitive #may #meaning #medium #natural

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#looked #photograph #seldom #usually

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

— Ansel Adams

#execution #expression #infinite #interpretation #medium

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. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#extracted #eye #i #i think #interested

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

#appear #chance #comes #excites #eye

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#amateur #i #photographer #writer